Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.60.1.02
Nationalism, Federalism, and Sovereignty: From an Anti-bureaucratic to the Anti-brussels Revolution?
Krešimir Petković
orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-1838
; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The text examines the possibilities of articulating the political resistance in Croatia, which the author calls the “anti-Brussels revolution”. The first part of the text clarifies the relationship between cultural and anti-bureaucratic revolution in the context of the relationship between political elites and the body politic. The second part presents and explains the use of the phrase anti-bureaucratic revolution in the analyses of Mirjana Kasapović, a political scientist, which provide historically instructive insights into the relationship between institutional and extra-institutional political activity necessary for the analysis of the emergence of the anti-Brussels revolution in Croatia. The third part of the text provides a brief presentation and typologization of six paradigmatic episodes related to protest, referendum and counter-referendum politics. These episodes can be subsumed under the conceptual field of revolution studies and represent a precursor to the anti-Brussels revolution as a political event in the realm of the sense of the possible. It is concluded that the anti-Brussels revolution is a form of emerging anti-bureaucratic revolution.
Keywords
Croatia; European Union; Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution; Cultural Revolution; Anti-Brussels Revolution; Protest Politics
Hrčak ID:
300932
URI
Publication date:
27.4.2023.
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