Structural Origins of Post-Yugoslav Regimes

This analysis of the Yugoslav democratization process explains the variation of the regime outcome within a structuralist framework. Focusing on the post-socialist world, it goes beyond ethnicity and elite agency to bring the role of class and the state into discussions of third wave democracies.

Auteur

Valentina Petrovic is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich. She previously studied at the American University of Beirut, the University of Zurich and Sciences Po Bordeaux. She holds a doctoral degree from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her dissertation examined the influence of classes, elites, civil society and state structures in the democratisation process in post-communist countries, with a regional focus on the Yugoslav successor states. Her research interests include political sociology and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on the processes of democratisation, European integration and collective action in post-communist context.