THE PARTY SYSTEMS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
THE PARTY SYSTEMS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Author(s): Vladimir Goati
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: arty system; political distance consensus; polarized pluralism
Summary/Abstract: The formation of new parties in Serbia and Montenegro began before the end of 1989 while these two republics were still part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From November 1989 until the end of 1990, about fifty parties were formed in Serbia; the number reached 161 at the beginning of 1996, and by the end of 2001 they numbered 230. In 1990, 20 parties, three political associations and one political movement were registered in Montenegro. The number of political parties in that republic rose to 27 in 1992, 58 in 1996, and 65 by the end of 2000. However, the appearance of a large number of parties is not just characteristic of Serbia and Montenegro, since the same phenomenon, which some authors call “excessive pluralisation” (We­ solowski, 1991:14), has been seen in all post-communist countries of South-Ea­ stern Europe. Forty parties were registered in Croatia in 1990, their number rising to 84 in 1999; 31 in Macedonia in 1990, 124 in Slovenia in 1993, 120 in Hungary in 1989, 61 in Bulgaria in 1991, 79 in Czechoslovakia in 1991, 300 in Poland 1991, and 128 in Romania in 1992.

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