Das jugoslawische Rätsel: Enklavendemokratie, Staatsschwäche und Probleme externer Demokratieförderung
The Yugoslav Puzzle: Enclave Democracy, Weak States and Problems of External Democracy Promotion

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the limited electorate democracy in the countries of ex-Yugoslavia and its relation to weak and dysfunctional welfare states, discussing it within the framework of the current debates on transformation and democratisation. The first question is why the ex-Yugoslav region has remained a rather undiscovered area within the democratisation studies? Another puzzle lies within the dilemma why the liberal type of Yugoslav socialism has caused so many difficulties during the democratisation processes since 1989, contrary to other East European countries which had faced more difficult preconditions for democratisation. Starting from the in-depth knowledge of the regional debates, the paper perceives two complex sequencing problems of the political change in post-Yugoslavia, while it concurrently criticises western bias towards the region.

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