RESPONDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN KOSOVO AND SERBIA TOWARDS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
RESPONDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN KOSOVO AND SERBIA TOWARDS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

Author(s): Plator Avdiu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Governance, Government/Political systems
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Serbia; Kosovo; public institutions; corruption
Summary/Abstract: This overview is one of the outputs of the regional project “Western Balkans Security Barometer” (WBSB), led by the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS) in partnership with the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) in Serbia. Bearing in mind the complexities and the ongoing political dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia that could potentially lead to resolution, the project was initiated by launching the first regional survey targeting both countries. This edition of the WBSB presents the findings of this survey conducted simultaneously in Kosovo and Serbia in SeptemberOctober 2020. Both organisations, KCSS and BCSP, have published their respective country reports , in which data on the following issues: i) trust in security, justice, central and local institutions in Kosovo and Serbia, ii) frequency of respondents’ direct contact with principal security and justice institutions in Kosovo and Serbia, and iii) respondents’ perceptions on the pervasiveness of corruption in key institutions in Kosovo and Serbia, are analysed and quantitatively interpreted. This comparative policy brief is intended as an overview of the key findings of both country reports, and serves as a tool to compare Kosovar and Serbian respondents’ perceptions on public institutions. The key findings in terms of trust, perception of corruption and frequency of contact in public institutions by citizens of both countries respectively, are as follow: Overall, in Kosovo the security institutions seem to enjoy the highest levels of public trust followed by municipalities while in Serbia it is the central institutions followed by security institutions that resulted the most trusted.

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