@article{2020:solioz:deconsolid,
title = {Deconsolidation and de-democratisation: Current western Balkans experience of the transition},
year = {2020},
note = {This article reviews the third decade of the post-Wall transition of
central and eastern Europe, paying particular attention to the western
Balkans. It focuses on European integration and the indicators of
deconsolidation - notably, the lack of trust which has characterised
the ‘crisis of confidence’ induced by the EU’s own series of
crises since the middle of the 2000s. Additionally, the rise of
authoritarianism and populism across the region is often viewed as a
symptom of a possible ‘de-democratisation’, or reverse wave. From
a process-oriented perspective, the author suggests a rethinking of
the various polarisations under which, instead of seeing
democratisation and de-democratisation as opposing forces, we may
recognise instead that both are actually continuous, interconnected
processes related to democracy itself - and not (at least, not
necessarily) to a growing state of non-democracy. Oscillation between
these two states may well characterise the next decade of the
transition but, if we are to address the problems that this causes, we
must first understand precisely how we have got where we are.},
journal = {SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe},
pages = {187--208},
author = {Solioz, Christophe},
volume = {23},
number = {2}
}