Arolda Elbasani
Biographic Data
| ID | 796318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arolda Elbasani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arolda |
| FAMILY NAME | Elbasani |
| SIGNATURE | ELBASANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0225-3549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
State-building and patronage networks
Why has the internationally promoted Weberian-style bureaucracy failed to replace patronage as the dominant principle of state organization in post-war Kosovo? This article explores how international actors’ rule-promotion activities and local actors’ strategies of resistance play out and interact to explain the failure. The empirical analysis focuses on rules of recruitment in the civil service system in the period 2000–2016. The analysis juxtap…
State-building or state-capture? Institutional exports, local reception and hybridity of reforms in post-war Kosovo
Post-war Kosovo has been the subject of a highly intrusive international state-building project, including an unprecedented influx of international administrators, assistance and funds. However, it increasingly bears the hallmark of a weak and captured state. This special issue contributes theoretical and empirical insights that shed light on possible explanations, difficulties and prospects of the state-building project in Kosovo. Theoretically,…
Rule of law, corruption and democratic accountability in the course of EU enlargement
Published online: 04 May 2017
Governing Islam in Plural Societies
Post-Communist openings constituted the ideal foci for reimagining the relationship between the state and religion. Specifically, new opportunities were created to balance between rules of inclusion and exclusion regarding contending alternatives of a ‘good life’. In line with their new democratic aspirations, all Balkan countries have gradually reshuffled their religious policies, formalized religious freedoms, and institutionalized a more equal…
Governing Islam and Religious Pluralism in New Democracies
Published online: 03 Jan 2017
Albanian-style laïcité
As a Muslim-majority and multi-denominational polity, Albania has historically searched for suitable institutional solutions to reconcile Islam with a pluralist society, a unitary nation and often fragile European statehood. The post-Communist solutions for the management of this frail plurality are commonly framed within a local tradition of laïcité (Alb. shtet laik), which adapts the French model of separation between state and religion to part…
Localized Islam(s)
This special issue investigates contemporary transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans. We put forward the concept of localized Islam as an analytical lens that aptly captures the input of various interpreting agents, competing narratives, and choices of faith. By adopting an agent-based approach that is sensitive to relevant actors’ choices and the contexts where they operate, we explore how various groups negotiate and ultimately l…
State-organised Religion and Muslims’ Commitment to Democracy in Albania
This article questions why, and indeed how, Muslims have committed to democratisation in post-communist Albania. The explanatory framework merges the theoretical insights of the moderation paradigm with the specific devices that characterise the post-communist religious field in investigating Muslims' support for democracy. The empirical analysis draws on a within-case comparison of Muslims' behaviour in three consequential stages of democratic t…
Islam in the post-Communist Balkans
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
The Revival of Islam in the Balkans
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides
Islam and Democracy at the Fringes of Europe
This article analyzes how the Muslim majority has engaged with, and contributed to parallel processes of democratization and European integration in post-Communist Albania. The assessment of Muslims' choices focuses on the Central organization, the Albanian Muslim Community, which is recognized by the state as the only authority in charge of all the administrative and spiritual issues pertinent to the community of Sunni believers, and serves as t…
Muslims' support for European integration
Version of record first published: 29 Nov 2012
Cecilie Endresen, Is the Albanian's Religion Really "Albanianism"? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania
Article Cecilie Endresen, Is the Albanian’s Religion Really “Albanianism”? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania was published on April 1, 2014 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 62, issue 4)
Rediscovering the Umma
European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans
Albania - Vulnerable or Immune to Potential Risks from the Greek Crisis
The Greek crisis has raised many concerns about its potential effects on the fragile post-communist Albanian economy.This report analyzes the effects of the crisis, taking into account 1) structural issues related to the model of post-communist economic development and 2) conjectural challenges to crucial sectors that constitute the bilateral relations between Greece and Albania.The analysis suggests that the potential sectoral and ad hoc consequ…
The Dangers of Inverted Totalitarianism
Enlargement Instruments and Domestic Constraints
Article Enlargement Instruments and Domestic Constraints: Public Administration Reform in Post-Communist Albania was published on January 1, 2009 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 57, issue 1)
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans
At the turn of more than a decade of violent and rather uncertain transitions to democracy, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans.1 It promises to transform the countries in the region
Rule of law, corruption and democratic accountability in the course of EU enlargement
Published online: 04 May 2017
Localized Islam(s)
This special issue investigates contemporary transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans. We put forward the concept of localized Islam as an analytical lens that aptly captures the input of various interpreting agents, competing narratives, and choices of faith. By adopting an agent-based approach that is sensitive to relevant actors’ choices and the contexts where they operate, we explore how various groups negotiate and ultimately l…
State-organised Religion and Muslims’ Commitment to Democracy in Albania
This article questions why, and indeed how, Muslims have committed to democratisation in post-communist Albania. The explanatory framework merges the theoretical insights of the moderation paradigm with the specific devices that characterise the post-communist religious field in investigating Muslims' support for democracy. The empirical analysis draws on a within-case comparison of Muslims' behaviour in three consequential stages of democratic t…
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans
At the turn of more than a decade of violent and rather uncertain transitions to democracy, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans.1 It promises to transform the countries in the region
Islam and Democracy at the Fringes of Europe
This article analyzes how the Muslim majority has engaged with, and contributed to parallel processes of democratization and European integration in post-Communist Albania. The assessment of Muslims' choices focuses on the Central organization, the Albanian Muslim Community, which is recognized by the state as the only authority in charge of all the administrative and spiritual issues pertinent to the community of Sunni believers, and serves as t…
Muslims' support for European integration
Version of record first published: 29 Nov 2012
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans
At the turn of more than a decade of violent and rather uncertain transitions to democracy, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans.1 It promises to transform the countries in the region
The Dangers of Inverted Totalitarianism
Enlargement Instruments and Domestic Constraints
Article Enlargement Instruments and Domestic Constraints: Public Administration Reform in Post-Communist Albania was published on January 1, 2009 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 57, issue 1)
Albania - Vulnerable or Immune to Potential Risks from the Greek Crisis
The Greek crisis has raised many concerns about its potential effects on the fragile post-communist Albanian economy.This report analyzes the effects of the crisis, taking into account 1) structural issues related to the model of post-communist economic development and 2) conjectural challenges to crucial sectors that constitute the bilateral relations between Greece and Albania.The analysis suggests that the potential sectoral and ad hoc consequ…
Rediscovering the Umma
European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans
Muslims' support for European integration
Version of record first published: 29 Nov 2012
Cecilie Endresen, Is the Albanian's Religion Really "Albanianism"? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania
Article Cecilie Endresen, Is the Albanian’s Religion Really “Albanianism”? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania was published on April 1, 2014 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 62, issue 4)
Islam in the post-Communist Balkans
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
The Revival of Islam in the Balkans
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides
Islam and Democracy at the Fringes of Europe
This article analyzes how the Muslim majority has engaged with, and contributed to parallel processes of democratization and European integration in post-Communist Albania. The assessment of Muslims' choices focuses on the Central organization, the Albanian Muslim Community, which is recognized by the state as the only authority in charge of all the administrative and spiritual issues pertinent to the community of Sunni believers, and serves as t…
State-organised Religion and Muslims’ Commitment to Democracy in Albania
This article questions why, and indeed how, Muslims have committed to democratisation in post-communist Albania. The explanatory framework merges the theoretical insights of the moderation paradigm with the specific devices that characterise the post-communist religious field in investigating Muslims' support for democracy. The empirical analysis draws on a within-case comparison of Muslims' behaviour in three consequential stages of democratic t…
Governing Islam in Plural Societies
Post-Communist openings constituted the ideal foci for reimagining the relationship between the state and religion. Specifically, new opportunities were created to balance between rules of inclusion and exclusion regarding contending alternatives of a ‘good life’. In line with their new democratic aspirations, all Balkan countries have gradually reshuffled their religious policies, formalized religious freedoms, and institutionalized a more equal…
Governing Islam and Religious Pluralism in New Democracies
Published online: 03 Jan 2017
Albanian-style laïcité
As a Muslim-majority and multi-denominational polity, Albania has historically searched for suitable institutional solutions to reconcile Islam with a pluralist society, a unitary nation and often fragile European statehood. The post-Communist solutions for the management of this frail plurality are commonly framed within a local tradition of laïcité (Alb. shtet laik), which adapts the French model of separation between state and religion to part…
Localized Islam(s)
This special issue investigates contemporary transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans. We put forward the concept of localized Islam as an analytical lens that aptly captures the input of various interpreting agents, competing narratives, and choices of faith. By adopting an agent-based approach that is sensitive to relevant actors’ choices and the contexts where they operate, we explore how various groups negotiate and ultimately l…
State-building and patronage networks
Why has the internationally promoted Weberian-style bureaucracy failed to replace patronage as the dominant principle of state organization in post-war Kosovo? This article explores how international actors’ rule-promotion activities and local actors’ strategies of resistance play out and interact to explain the failure. The empirical analysis focuses on rules of recruitment in the civil service system in the period 2000–2016. The analysis juxtap…
State-building or state-capture? Institutional exports, local reception and hybridity of reforms in post-war Kosovo
Post-war Kosovo has been the subject of a highly intrusive international state-building project, including an unprecedented influx of international administrators, assistance and funds. However, it increasingly bears the hallmark of a weak and captured state. This special issue contributes theoretical and empirical insights that shed light on possible explanations, difficulties and prospects of the state-building project in Kosovo. Theoretically,…
Rule of law, corruption and democratic accountability in the course of EU enlargement
Published online: 04 May 2017
Political science (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works)