CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Davidovic, Jovana |
|---|---|
| Title | Unraveling the Black Mountain:Authoritarian Submission and Party Preference in Montenegro |
| Summary | Why some post-communist countries regularly experience democratic overturn of power while others not? Concentrating on the psychological factors that could prevent democratic competitiveness in post-communist area, this thesis investigates the relationship between one particular dimension of authoritarian personality – authoritarian submission, and party preferences in Montenegro - the country that never changed the incumbent government since the breakdown of communism. I adopt a novel approach to tap into the multi-dimensional examination of authoritarianism, concentrating on three dimensions (authoritarian submission, conventionalism, authoritarian aggression) separately. I argue that authoritarian submission, as a psychological construct that stands for obedient relation to political authority and upbringing patterns, has a potential to explain domination of Democratic Party of Socialists – DPS. I test my assumptions using survey research. More precisely, I use two surveys – Montenegrin National Elections Study (2016) – MNES, and a self-designed student survey (2018). Notwithstanding the Montenegrin/Serb ethnic cleavage that remains significant, findings from both analyses confirm that submissive tendencies are relevant for voting this party, thus emphasizing the relevance of psychological factors for the democratic potential of post-communist countries. |
| Supervisor | Sata, Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/davidovic_jovana.pdf |
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