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Putting an End to Ethnic Political Engineering?

Institutionalisation of ethnicity is a phenomenon known, wide present and researched in the Western Balkans politics. Another phenomenon, that has not been seriously researched yet is a fact that ethnicity is being used for assuring certain positions and assuring benefits. Simultaneously, clientelistic position of minority political elites is prevailing factor for creation of governments in e.g. Croatia, Macedonia and Kosovo. In spite of normatively well developed minority protection across the Western Balkan region, being a minority is beneficial only for a narrow segment of minority population ; predominantly those who were smart enough to recognize and use the normative-institutional settings that assure minority representation in politics. As a result, there are minority political elites, who are close to the state controlled funds entitled to minorities and often benefit on a private basis too.

ethnic political engineering; national minority political participation; double voting rights; Constitutional Court

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