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- Title
Multiethnic democracy in Macedonia: political analysis and emerging scenarios.
- Authors
Maleska, Mirjana
- Abstract
It is not easy to describe Macedonia as a 'democracy', or 'multiethnic democracy'. It would be closer to the real political process to say that the country adopted a liberal democratic framework in 1991. In view of the different level of democracies, Macedonia most probably belongs to the 'electoral democracies', although the elections are not always free, honest and fair. After the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation, Macedonia was built up as a nation-state with a majoritarian political design. After the violent armed conflict in 2001 and with the mediation of EU and USA, the leaders of the four main parliamentarian parties, two Macedonian and two Albanian signed a peace treaty, the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The country was put on a new track of 'power-sharing arrangement'. The main challenges for this 'peace plan' are two tendencies: nationalism and the poor level of democracy. The paper encompasses a longer period of time and is divided into several sections: 1. The new world (dis)order; 2. The logic of the democratic process; 3. Introducing proportionality; 4. Majoritarian versus consociational model. The debate in Macedonian society; 5. The causes of deadly ethnic conflicts; 6. Is Macedonia a deeply divided society?; 7. The main challenges to power-sharing model. Nationalism and poor democratic performance; 8. MRO-DPMNE marks its political territory as conservative, ethno-national, rightist party; 9. The state of democracy; 10. What is next? The emerging scenarios (11) are based on structural trends and the intervening factors, having in mind the limitation of social sciences in comparison with the more exact ones.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; NORTH Macedonian politics &; government; PARLIAMENTARY practice; NATION-state; NATIONALISM
- Publication
New Balkan Politics, 2013, Issue 13, p1
- ISSN
1409-9454
- Publication type
Article