The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans

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This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious, linguistic, ethnic), and, of course, the nature of political parties which differs from other European cases, especially in terms of origins, organization and structure. However, Western Balkan political parties do show certain similarities with other West European cases where power is centralised and held by the parties’ leadership. The book ultimately attempts to test whether and to what extent the influence of institutional variables affects the level of presidentialisation of political parties, also considering the parties’ organization features. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans (Gianluca Passarelli)....Pages 1-22 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Croatia: Institutional Change Matters (Dario Nikić Čakar)....Pages 23-47 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Serbia: Influence of Direct Elected President (Spasojević Dušan, Stojiljković Zoran)....Pages 49-71 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Mitigated Presidentialism (Suad Arnautović)....Pages 73-96 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Macedonia: The Role of Ethnics (Dane Taleski, Viktor Dimovski, Lura Pollozhani)....Pages 97-117 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Montenegro: A Limited Semi-presidentialism (Zlatko Vujović, Nikoleta Tomović)....Pages 119-144 The Presidentialisation of Parties in Slovenia: Leaders and Parties (Danica Fink-Hafner, Alenka Krašovec)....Pages 145-167 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Albania: Parliamentary Constraints (Afrim Krasniqi)....Pages 169-192 The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Kosovo: Institutional Limits (Albert Krasniqi)....Pages 193-213 Back Matter ....Pages 215-217