Politička kultura, promene i identitet Srbije
POLITICAL CULTURE, CHANGES AND THE IDENTITY OF SERBIA

Author(s): Goran Bašić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Government/Political systems, Politics and Identity
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Liberalism; Conservatism; Yugoslavia; Changes; Political Culture
Summary/Abstract: The nature of the social and political changes in contemporary Serbia has been rooted in a historical narrative and political culture. The excessive insistence on traditionalism and the mythic and heroic past, or the allegory of the heavenly people that cannot attain collective justice, have been distancing Serbia from the contemporary development trends and have proven to be an obstacle to modernisation. Serbian citizens are not inclined to liberal ideas, while the periods in which the conservative population followed the contemporary development trends have been short and far between. The changes that Serbia has faced in following such ideological matrix, during the country’s Yugoslav era, and especially in the last three decades, caused at least four national frustrations that Serbian citizens seem to be unable to resolve: the first concerns the status of Kosovo, the second refers to the position of Serbian people in the post-Yugoslav space, the third deals with the suspense created by the need to become involved in Euro-Atlantic initiatives, while the fourth involves attitudes to diversity.

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