Bosnia and Belgium: National divisions and party cartels

This paper is comparative analysis which underlines 'genetics' of divided societies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Belgium and their national party cartels. The main thesis elaborates that religion, together with binding socio-economic connotations, was basic factor of producing three nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was additional factor of their mutual conflicts. In Belgium, on the other side, strengthening of distance between Dutch and French language, between German conservative north and Romance leftist south, was the main factor of shaping strong and confronted identities of Flemish... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Simović Vlade
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Reihe/Periodikum: Politeia, Vol 7, Iss 13, Pp 114-127 (2017)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Faculty of Political Sciences
University of Banja Luka
Bosnia and Hercegovina and Institute for Political Studies
Belgrade
Serbia
Schlagwörter: Divided societies / national conflicts / national party cartels / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Belgium / Social Sciences / H
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.5937/pol1713114S

This paper is comparative analysis which underlines 'genetics' of divided societies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Belgium and their national party cartels. The main thesis elaborates that religion, together with binding socio-economic connotations, was basic factor of producing three nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was additional factor of their mutual conflicts. In Belgium, on the other side, strengthening of distance between Dutch and French language, between German conservative north and Romance leftist south, was the main factor of shaping strong and confronted identities of Flemish and Walloons. In these divided societies, national elites accomplish dominant role. They accomplish strong partocratic systems and national party cartels which shape all main social and political processes such as in cases of Bosnia and Belgium.