CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Smajic, Adnan |
|---|---|
| Title | Behavior of Domestic Political Elites in Imposed Consociational Arrangements: Failures of External Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Summary | This thesis tackles a question of negative aspects of imposed consociationalism in a post-conflict society. A two-unit case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina examined how domestic political elites perceived and responded to externally initiated reforms. The two cases, the implementation of the Sejdić-Finci judgement and the Mostar process, illustrate the implications of international involvement for the process of democratization. The elite-based approach allowed for examining the elite behavior in the two cases over time and identifying the dominant patterns of behavior employed by the domestic political elites. Using a framework developed by Sonja Grimm, the empirical part identified three dominant patterns of elite’s behavior – slowdown, modification, and resistance as dominant modes of reform-resistive behavior. The research found that the resistive behavior tends to occur when the elites perceive the initiated reforms threatening their position and when the cost of cooperation is higher than the cost of resistance. This research contributes to the existing literature by outlining which instruments domestic political elites have at their disposal within a consociational arrangement maintained by a robust international presence. |
| Supervisor | Bieber, Florian; Bochsler, Daniel |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/smajic_adnan.pdf |
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