Ideološko-politički profil učesnika protesta u Srbiji 1990–2022.
IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL PROFILE OF PROTEST PARTICIPANTS IN SERBIA 1990–2022

Author(s): Dijana P. Vukomanović
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Politics and society, Sociology of Politics, Politics and Identity
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: protests; citizens; homo politicus; protest political participation; ideology
Summary/Abstract: The analysis is aimed at researching the values of the participants of the mass protests in Serbia over the past three decades and reconstructing their ideological and political profile. The protest political participation of citizens is observed in three time-distinctive periods (1990–1999; 2000–2011; 2012–2022) in accordance with the periodization of the key power changes in Serbia. The use of the analytical construct of homo politicus as an abstract, ideal type of protest-active citizen follows the evolution of this type of revolutionary citizenship in Serbia. The evolutionary path is also reconstructed by analysing the categories of ideological self-perception of the protest participants belonging to different ideological families: Europeans, Social Democrats, Leftists, Liberals, Monarchists, Conservatives, Nationalists, Patriots and Rightists. The analysis shows that the 1990s were the “golden age” of political protest activism, followed by a wave of demobilization of civic activism in the decade after October 5, 2000. Protest political participation is compared with the normative- expressive attitudes of the protest participants towards the key institutions of the political system: democracy, leader, parliament, government, judiciary, parties and electoral conditions. The conclusion of the analysis points to a negative correlation between these variables: a lesser degree of trust in institutions implies greater mobilization of citizens to protest.

• Details
• Contents