Original scientific paper

The Ottoman Tradition as the Model of the Culture of Power in the Balkans in the 19th-20th c.

Mirosław Dymarski

Abstract

This article examines the impact of the Ottoman tradition in the Balkan states in the 19th and 20th c. The character of the political leadership and the centralized regimes established in the Balkan states was despotic, autocratic and authoritarian, as a result of the absence of democratic tradition and an underdeveloped political awareness and culture. A characteristic feature of the Turkish system was the position
of the relatively free peasants, very different from the position of peasants in Europe. The features characteristic of the Ottoman tradition which survived in the Balkans the longest, until the end of the 20th century, were violence, corruption, nepotism as an intrinsic component of political life and power often changing hands, because of violence, assassinations, murders, etc.

Keywords

Ottomans; Balkan states; political culture; political regime; violence; bureaucracy; corruption; social and economic order

Hrčak ID:

176643

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/176643

Publication date:

7.3.2017.

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