Democracy by decree : prospects and limits of imposed consociational democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Democracy by decree : prospects and limits of imposed consociational democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Adis Merdzanovic.

The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community's preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism...

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Main Author: Merdzanovic, Adis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart : Ibidem, 2015.
Subjects:
Judge-made law > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Judicial power > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Courts > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Democracy > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Courts
Democracy
Judge-made law
Judicial power
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ACRONYMS; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Case Selection; 1.2 Methodology; 1.3 Structure; Part I: Nationalism; 2 Theories of Nationalism-A Brief Survey; 2.1 Nation and Nationalism; 2.1.1 Modernists and Primordialists; 2.1.2 The 'Nation'; 2.1.3 Nationalism; 2.2 Analysing Nationalism in Contextual Terms; 2.2.1 The geographical and historical contexts; 2.2.2 The procedural context; 3 A Comparative Look at Western Balkan Nationalisms; 3.1 Elements of Commonality within Bosnian, Croat, and Serb Nationalisms; 3.1.1 Ethnicity; 3.1.2 Historical association.
  • 3.1.3 Religion3.1.4 Language; 3.2 Nationalism in Serbia-Martyrdom and Uprising; 3.2.1 Before the uprisings: The ideological foundation of the Serbian uprising; 3.2.2 From the revolution to the national state and beyond; 3.3 Nationalism in Croatia-Historic Statehood Rights; 3.3.1 The Illyrian movement; 3.3.2 The Croat national movement; 3.4 Yugoslavism-Two Forms of a Failed Idea; 3.4.1 Yugoslavism-Jugoslovenstvo; 3.4.2 Yugoslav 'brotherhood and unity'; 3.4.3 Renewed nationalism and the collapse of Yugoslavia; 4 Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  • 4.1 Historical Roots of Bosnian Identity: Medieval Bosnia4.2 Bosnia under Ottoman Rule; 4.3 Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats, Bosnian Serbs; 4.3.1 'National' agitation under Ottoman rule; 4.3.2 Nationalism in Habsburg Bosnia; 4.3.3 Bosnian national identities in the two Yugoslavias; 4.4 Conclusion; Part II: Consociationalism; 5 A brief Introduction to Consociational Theory; 5.1 Contemporary Consociationalism and its Critics; 5.2 The Original Model and Elite Behaviour; 5.3 The Origins of Cooperation; 6 'Imposed Consociation'; 6.1 Intervention and Imposition.
  • 6.2 Consociational Democracy and the International Context6.3 The Concept of 'Imposed Consociation'; 6.3.1 Assumptions: minimal consensus and group cohesion; 6.3.2 Elite behaviour in imposed and ordinary consociations compared; 6.4 Anticipated Critique of the Concept of the 'Imposed Consociation'; Part III: Bosnia and Herzegovina; 7 Consociationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina; 7.1 The central state; 7.2 The Entities; 7.3 People vs. Citizens; 7.4 Brčko District; 7.5 Bosnian Consociation; 7.6 The High Representative; 8 Political Elites and Political Quarrels.
  • 8.1 The Historical Statehood of Bosnia-Herzegovina8.2 The People and the Society; 8.3 Debating the State; 8.3.1 The relationship between the state and the entities: more or less federalism?; 8.3.2 The Croat Question; 8.3.3 The misuse of the Sejdić and Finci verdict; 9 The Office of the High Representative from 1996 to 2013; 9.1 Carl Bildt (1996-1997); 9.1.1 The political landscape before the first post-war elections; 9.1.2 Setting up the new state; 9.1.3 The efforts of the High Representative; 9.2 Carlos Westendorp (1997-1999); 9.2.1 The pre-Bonn phase; 9.2.2 Towards the Bonn powers.

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