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Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine ‘foundational legitimacy,’ or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009419838045 |
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author | Boduszyński, Mieczysław P. Pavlaković, Vjeran |
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description | What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine ‘foundational legitimacy,’ or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratization depend of integrating losers into the new order and recognizing plural narratives of state formation, then exclusivist narratives based on foundational legitimacy pose a direct challenge to both. We focus on two Yugoslav successor states, Kosovo and Croatia. For both cases, we trace how appeals to ‘foundational legitimacy’ by groups that claim a leading role in the struggle for independence fostered a politics of exclusion, which ran counter to both the spirit of democracy. In Croatia, foundational legitimacy was partly challenged after 2000 by reformist political forces, though more recently it has re-appeared in political life. In Kosovo, foundational legitimacy was never successfully challenged and continues to shape political dynamics to the present day. |
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spelling | pubmed-82805522021-07-16 Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo Boduszyński, Mieczysław P. Pavlaković, Vjeran J Contemp Hist Special Section: Cultures of Victory, Guest Editor: John Paul Newman What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine ‘foundational legitimacy,’ or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratization depend of integrating losers into the new order and recognizing plural narratives of state formation, then exclusivist narratives based on foundational legitimacy pose a direct challenge to both. We focus on two Yugoslav successor states, Kosovo and Croatia. For both cases, we trace how appeals to ‘foundational legitimacy’ by groups that claim a leading role in the struggle for independence fostered a politics of exclusion, which ran counter to both the spirit of democracy. In Croatia, foundational legitimacy was partly challenged after 2000 by reformist political forces, though more recently it has re-appeared in political life. In Kosovo, foundational legitimacy was never successfully challenged and continues to shape political dynamics to the present day. SAGE Publications 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8280552/ /pubmed/34285422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009419838045 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Section: Cultures of Victory, Guest Editor: John Paul Newman Boduszyński, Mieczysław P. Pavlaković, Vjeran Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo |
title | Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy
in Croatia and Kosovo |
title_full | Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy
in Croatia and Kosovo |
title_fullStr | Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy
in Croatia and Kosovo |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy
in Croatia and Kosovo |
title_short | Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy
in Croatia and Kosovo |
title_sort | cultures of victory and the political consequences of foundational legitimacy
in croatia and kosovo |
topic | Special Section: Cultures of Victory, Guest Editor: John Paul Newman |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009419838045 |
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