Review article

Political Culture Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Damirka Mihaljević ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Mostaru, Mostar

Abstract

The article historically-analytically and critically analyzes the political culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The primary focus of the article is determining the political culture, its historical development in the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav period, and the consequences and impacts of such development on contemporary political culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Having in mind that, according to Putnam, Džaja and Kasapović, political culture has been shaped by state and institutional organizations and specifically its human operators, political culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina has evolved confrontationally between the three main religious and ethnic communities of Muslim-Bosnian, Orthodox-Serbian and Catholic-Croatian. At the time of democratization and liberalization of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian society in the 1990s, such historical confrontations and conflicts between the three main religious and ethnic communities did not lead to the creation of a common political identity of the constituent people of Bosnia and Herzegovina but rather, their irreconcilable differences and exclusivity caused mutual war conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina(out of which Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state has not yet consolidated).

Keywords

Bosnia and Herzegovina; political culture; political identity; democratization; liberalization; divided society

Hrčak ID:

232246

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/232246

Publication date:

1.5.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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