Nationalism, Federalism, and Sovereignty: From an Anti-bureaucratic to the Anti-brussels Revolution? Cover Image

Nacionalizam, federalizam i suverenizam: od protubirokratske do protubriselske revolucije?
Nationalism, Federalism, and Sovereignty: From an Anti-bureaucratic to the Anti-brussels Revolution?

Author(s): Krešimir Petković
Subject(s): Governance, Political behavior, Politics and society, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Croatia; European Union; Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution; Cultural Revolution; Anti-Brussels Revolution; Protest Politics;

Summary/Abstract: The text examines the possibilities of articulating the political resistance in Croatia, ‎which the author calls the “anti-Brussels revolution”. The first part of the ‎text clarifies the relationship between cultural and anti-bureaucratic revolution ‎in the context of the relationship between political elites and the body politic.‎ The second part presents and explains the use of the phrase anti-bureaucratic ‎revolution in the analyses of Mirjana Kasapović, a political scientist, which ‎provide historically instructive insights into the relationship between institutional‎ and extra-institutional political activity necessary for the analysis of the ‎emergence of the anti-Brussels revolution in Croatia. The third part of the text‎ provides a brief presentation and typologization of six paradigmatic episodes ‎related to protest, referendum and counter-referendum politics. These episodes ‎can be subsumed under the conceptual field of revolution studies and represent ‎a precursor to the anti-Brussels revolution as a political event in the realm of the ‎sense of the possible. It is concluded that the anti-Brussels revolution is a form ‎of emerging anti-bureaucratic revolution.‎

  • Issue Year: LX/2023
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 29-50
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian