MONTENEGRO DEMOCRACY INDEX 2008
MONTENEGRO DEMOCRACY INDEX 2008

Contributor(s): Miloš Bešić (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics, Civil Society, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: CEDEM Centar za Demokratiju i Ljudska Prava
Keywords: Montenegro; European integration; political continuity; economic crisis; Democracy Index
Summary/Abstract: Montenegro, as a state, at the moment of writing of this Report, has already applied for the membership in EU, and in that way has gone one step further in a process of European integrations. Therefore, since the last year when we presented the results of our democracy survey in 2007, social and political dynamics have been an important characteristic of Montenegrin society. By applying for the membership, Montenegro qualified itself as a state which has come closer to EU in a political sense, and this status at the same time represents the evaluation of to what extent a big number of social life areas are democratic, and these areas are the object of a careful monitoring of EU bodies from the standpoint of a future integration of Montenegro within European Union. In that sense, the Report we are presenting this time, and which by identical methodology as the one from the previous years represents a survey of democracy in Montenegro in 2008, is especially interesting. In fact, it points to the absence or presence of a discrepancy between formal political conditions and reality of Montenegrin society, where when we say reality we mostly think of a relation and estimation of Montenegrin citizens. Thus, on one hand, there are formal conditions which always prompt political elite fulfils in order to realise already planned political goals.

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