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O jednoj zlotvornoj uobrazilji: državotvorne i stožerne nacionalne partije
ON AN EVIL IMAGINATION: STATEHOOD AND LEADING NATIONAL PARTIES

Author(s): Esad Zgodić
Subject(s): Nationalism Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: ethnocracy; statehood parties; leading national parties; cleptocracy; partner relations; public good; party’s purposes; nationalism; national state; multinational state;

Summary/Abstract: Some parties understand themselves as statehood and leading national parties - such perceptions in the public generally exist without important attempts of identification constitutional elements such self-awareness and attribution of ethnocracy as the regime which they establish and on whose ground function as well as their critical and pro-emancipatory dismantling. It is considered that such perceptions belong to the ideological imagination and it highlights to several assumptions on which it is possible to articulate such a dismantling and defend the meaning and value of democratic multi-ethnic states.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 130-150
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bosnian