Serbia during Milosevic’s rule and after

Abstract

The article looks into the nature of the Serbian political regime under Milosevic and under Đinđić. After the discussion on the suitability of various types of definition of non-democratic regime, the article classifies both regimes as hybrid democracies by way of applying the definition of competitive authoritarianism developed by Levistky and Way. The last part discusses four areas of competitive authoritarianism.

Keywords

• hybrid democracies
• competitive authoritarianism
• non-democratic regime
• opposition
• elections
• institution building