CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Kukec, Marko |
|---|---|
| Title | Think Croatian, Act Slavonian: The Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja as a regionalist patriot |
| Summary | There has recently been an upsurge of the territorial party competition in Europe, and Croatia has followed the trend. This work, by following the framework of external and internal resources in studying regionalist parties, aims to study the strategy of Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja. To better capture the strategies of regionalist parties, a new categorization of regionalist parties is introduced, relying on the two of the most salient dimensions of territorial party competition, self-government and ethnonational. Juxtaposing those two dimensions produces four categories of regionalist parties: regionalist unionists, regionalist parties via facti, regionalist patriot and ethnoregionalist parties. To place the HDSSB in one category, the qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles and self-produced content is performed. The results suggest the HDSSB falls into the regionalist patriot category of regionalist parties, and that allows for the further discussion on this understudied category. The reasons for such a placement are found in the opportunity of HDSSB to refer to the poverty of Slavonia and centralization, as well as in constraints that HDSSB faced: present cleavages, territorial history of Croatia, the role of Slavonia and Glavaš in the Homeland war and HDSSB organizational features. Future research should focus more on the rise of regionalist political parties and their demands for self-government in poor regions and in centralized states. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt Sandor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/kukec_marko.pdf |
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