Collapse That Lasts

Sunovrat koji traje

Author(s): Dragoš Ivanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 450-451/2009

Keywords: state institutions; national assembly; Serbia;

Blocade of Zemun Municipality

Opsada zemunske opštine

Author(s): Tanja B. Lončar / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 450-451/2009

Keywords: Zemun; municipality; political parties; constitutional court;

MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION, AUCTION AND AUTHORIZATION. A SCHUMPETERIAN VIEW OF LEADERSHIP AND THE POLITICAL MARKET

Monopolista verseny, árverés és felhatalmazás. Politikai vezetés és politikai piac, schumpeteri nézőpontból

Author(s): András Körösényi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: Democracy; market analogy; monopolistic competition; Schumpeter; authorization

The market analogy of democracy played a central role in one of the leading versions of democratic theory in the last fi fty years, in the so-called “elite” or “competitive” theory of democracy. In the present paper at fi rst I clarify that the dominant school of the market analogy (Downs and his followers) turned its back on the approach of the originator of the analogy, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter argued that both economic and political competition – due to the activity of entrepreneurs – are necessarily monopolistic and destroy equilibrium. Second, I show how followers of the Schumpeterian market analogy improved upon it by using the concept of natural monopolies and making it conform to the characteristics of politics, while further distancing themselves from the Downsian interpretation and the dominant Public Choice approach. Finally, I demonstrate a normative implication of monopolistic competition, namely its consequences for the concept of “agency loss”.

DEMOCRACY RESEARCH AT THE CROSSROADS OF POLITICAL AND POLICY ANALYSIS

Demokráciakutatás a politikai és közpolitikai elemzés keresztútján: A demokráciák minősége és teljesítőképessége

Author(s): Attila Ágh / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: The quality of democracy; the output of the public sector; economic; social political and public policy indicators of good governance

The great period of democracy research in the international political science at the turn of the eighties and nineties was generated by the democratization of the Central and East European countries. Since then there have been three major turning points in democracy research. The fi rst turning point or the fi rst big debate came from the character of democratization as a process, and the second one from that of the consolidation and the principle of “good governance”. Already the fi rst debate introduced the policy dimension beyond the political dimension, but the second debate completed giving priority to the policy analysis of democracies. The fact that the policy dimension as the question of good governance came to the fore, meant at the same time that the transfer of democratic institutions as the hardware was not enough, because that of the democratic political culture as the software was equally important. The third turning point in the democracy research has been necessitated by the global crisis that has radically transformed the relationships of the EU and the Member States, and it has exposed the question of “the quality of democracy”.

Kosovo in Parallel Dimension of Reality

Kosovo u paralelnoj dimenziji stvarnosti

Author(s): Snežana Kresoja / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Serbia; Kosovo; politics; independence

The political carnival of sans-cullottes, directed by Serbian elites in the week from February 17 to February 23, 2008, turned into a mute and failed attempt to translate ethnic and symbolical contents into a language appropriate for political communication...

Conspiracy of Silence And Promotion of Swearwords

Zavera ćutanja i propaganda psovki

Author(s): Nada Mijatović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: drug; swearwords;

A Big Scam

Velika podvala

Author(s): Dragoš Ivanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: electoral campaign; Serbia; elections;

Most recent surveys agree in one thing at least - the citizens' interest in the upcoming parliamentary elections, just like in the recent presidential ballot, is still kept at high levels. The question is, however, how and in with what the parties, the most influential ones, at least, respond to the citizens' heightened readiness to participate in public affairs. The party offerings in the campaign again adhere blindly to formulas intended to lure the voters, instead of better understanding their aspirations and more contemporary needs of Serbian society. Kostunica, for instance, who initiated the new elections, builds everything on the thesis that Kosovo could be returned within Serbia's borders, only if the people and coalition partners in the current government would understand him better. And he'll deal with Europe and the UN, he says, easily, once he manages to renew the talks on the subject. This is not only a fatal misconception, but an open attempt to cheat or corrupt voters with fake promises. And the inevitable thing that happens when people insist on exclusivity was engendered: bloody riots erupted in Kosovska Mitrovica, for which the prime minister and his Democratic Party of Serbia were mostly responsible. There has hardly been any other event that managed to distance us so far away from Europe and to destabilize Serbia like this one did...

Discomfort in Barbarity and Values Turmoil

Nelagodnost u varvarstvu i vrednosni preokret

Author(s): Sreten Ugričić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: cultural policy; democracy; cultural needs;

Kosovo is Finished Story

Kosovo je završena priča

Author(s): Lazar Manojlović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Kosovo; independence;

A Bowl

Činija

Author(s): Olga Zirojević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: bowl; porcelain; word;

Was Kosovo's Independence the Objective of Bombing?

Da li je cilj bombardovanja bio nezavisnost Kosova?

Author(s): Živorad Kovačević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Kosovo; independence; bombing;

Prime Minister Kostunica said that "the objective of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia nine years ago was to create the first NATO state in the world". Can this be true?...

Anouncement

Saopštenje

Author(s): Anonymous Anonymous / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Islamic religious community; islam;

How to Europe

Kako do Evrope

Author(s): Tanja B. Lončar / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Serbia; European integration; Vojislav Koštunica;

With Film Against Aggressive Patriotism

Filmom protiv agresivnog patriotizma

Author(s): T. J. / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: crimes; Kosovo; film; democracy;

To Avoid Pointless Separations

Izbeći besmislene podele

Author(s): Dušan Darijević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: priest; believers; Čačak;

Testimonies About Crimes in Suva Reka

Svedočenja o zločinima u Suvoj Reci

Author(s): Persa Vučić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Suva Reka; Kosovo; crimes;

The Jericho Trumpets of Kosovo

Kosovske trube jerihonske

Author(s): Mirko Đorđević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: Kosovo; Serbian Orthodox Church; independence;

The Unbearable Difficulty of Existence

Nepodnošljiva teskoba postojanja

Author(s): Dragica Stanojlović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: elections; Serbia; Kosovo;

We were Looking for Ourselves

Tražili smo sebe

Author(s): Vukašin Stambolić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: philosophy; students; state; party

Domination and Freedom

Dominacija i sloboda

Author(s): Olivija Rusovac / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 426-427/2008

Keywords: political philosophy; domination; freedom; reality;