Partokratija i sindikati u savremenoj Bosni i Hercegovini
Partocracy and Trade Unions in Modern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Vlade Simović, Filip Matić
Subject(s): Labor relations, Government/Political systems, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; partocracy and trade unions;
Summary/Abstract: The research subject of this paper is particracy in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Within that context, we analyze its political, economical, and social consequences on Bosnia and Herzegovina with a special focus on the current conditions of syndicates in this country. The hypothesis of this paper is that, with the help of enforcement of national divisions in the early nineties of the twentieth century, national party–cartelization of the political system. Thereby particracy has been established, to which »transitional« significant reduction of the socialism ideas of class binding and class struggle suppressed due to strengthening of always strong and to citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina, close international stratifications and conflicts. It has shown its radical form in the civil war from 1992 to 1995. In that kind of atmosphere, the process of privatization which had doctrinal sources of at the time dominating discourse - neoliberal theory, began. The compound of domestic political elites destroyed the social state, »transitional and particratic capitalism«, sovereignty taking, and the series of domestic and international political and economical »experiments«, led to the weakening of the syndicates. In time, they lost all of their significance and previous role. According to the conducted research, most of the citizens consider syndicates in Bosnia and Herzegovina are their own purpose and subjects to political elites. This kind of state of syndicates additionally empowers particracy and disables appropriate struggle for better position of workers and more responsible political elites.

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