LEGITIMACY, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY
LEGITIMACY, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Author(s): Vučina Vasović
Subject(s): Politics, Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: political legitimacy; state; democracy; civil society
Summary/Abstract: Political and democratic transition in the part of the former Yugoslavia known today as the union of Serbia and Montenegro abounds with numerous difficulties and problems. Expectations that after the fall of the former regime of real-socialism and the successfully performed pluralistic liberal revolution, Serbia and Montenegro would take the path of faster socio-economic, cultural and democratic development didn't come true. The biggest surprises and stagnations appear in the political sphere, that is, especially there where the biggest and fastest steps towards democratic development were expected. On the example of the union of Serbia and Montenegro it can be clearly demonstrated how much the stagnations in the political and legal sphere represent obstacles to the expected growth in all other areas of social life. The author of this paper demonstrates the character and the influence of these stagnations by analyzing the status of political legitimacy, state, democracy and civil society in the union of Serbia and Montenegro.

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