Review article
Challenges of Political Integration of National Minorities - with Particular Reference to the Parliamentary Elections in 2016 in Serbia
Ksenija Marković
; researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The integration process can be perceived through the prism of justice, whereby the aim of integration is to achieve the legal and political equality between minority and majority. This paper is based on the idea that the society has two main communities: cultural and political. Following this dichotomy, one can conclude that the integration of national minorities has two dimensions: political and social. Integration of national minorities involves their participation (integration) in political and social life of the community (state) in which they live. First part of the paper provides the analysis of models of political representation of national minorities in order to determine the advantages and disadvantages of each model. In the second part, the author analyzes the activities of minority parties in the last parliamentary elections in Serbia, the electoral programs which they proposed and the results that have been achieved.
Keywords
national minorities; the right to political representation; political integration; political parties of national minorities; elections
Hrčak ID:
198084
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2017.
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