Dušan Spasojević
Biographic Data
| ID | 833599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dušan Spasojević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dušan |
| FAMILY NAME | Spasojević |
| SIGNATURE | SPASOJEVIĆ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0661-4364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Artificial intelligence in the politics of great powers: Potential consequences to civil control of the military
Today artificial intelligence permeates all the pores of social life, including international relations and security, where the attention of the professional public is primarily drawn in the context of armed conflicts and rivalry of great powers. Scientific research has not sufficiently considered the consequences of its use to civilian-military relations, although it is a key institutional component of defence policy and an important aspect of n…
Dimitri A. Stavropoulos: The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Facing protests in Serbia: Patterns of New Competitive Authoritarianism
Recent literature suggests that the competitive authoritarian regimes emerging in the twenty-first century are more subtle and nuanced in comparison to the old regimes of the 1990s. Aiming to understand these differences in greater depth, this article explores how new competitive authoritarian regimes react to mass protests. The article focuses on the case of Serbia, a country where protests have been widespread both during the old regime of the …
Noise againt the dictatorship: Battle for symbolic representation
In this paper, we approach the process of (political) representation from the perspective of symbols as subjects of representation. Focusing on the protest Noise against the Dictatorship held in Serbia in spring 2020, we explore how symbols can become representatives, how their meanings are created and re-created, and how these processes affect the identity construction of the constituencies, of us and the Others. In contrast to the traditional p…
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines
This article investigates the effects of Serbian semi-presidentialism and the proportional representation electoral system on democratic performances. Both electoral and political systems provide incentives for power-sharing mechanisms and the pluralistic character of the party system. However, in situations when one party becomes much stronger and predominant, there is a growing probability for the presidentialization of politics and excessive c…
Journalists’ Perceptions of Populism and the Media
This chapter for the first time shows how journalists react to populist politicians and movements and what they think about them. It examines the reactions of journalists in serious and popular media to the presence of populism in 13 countries. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with around 50 journalists, the chapter explores popular definitions of populism; reasons for popularity; issues related to populism; consequences of populism; an…
Riding the wave of distrust and alienation – new parties in Serbia after 2008
Serbian party system is in the phase of reconfiguration which can be perceived as the outcome of domestic incentives (crisis of democratic transition and of democratic rule) and the international one (economic and migrant crisis). On one side, this reconfiguration includes emergence of predominant ruling party (Serbian Progressive Party, SNS) with strong leader and popular support; on the other side, the opposition camp has been atomized into num…
Montenegro, Nato and the divided society
In this paper we are investigating the political and social effects of Montenegro joining NATO. This issue is highly controversial and follows the political divisions in Montenegro, which motivated us to apply social cleavage theory. As method, we applied logistic regression clustered for standard error. We found that besides socio-demographic variables (ethnic division between Montenegrins and Serbs), the main line of the cleavage indicated by s…
Populistički Zeitgeist u “proevropskoj” Srbiji
In this paper we analyze the influence of populist ideas on the emergence and organization of new political parties in Serbia after the elections in 2007 and 2008. These elections represent the turning point in the development of the party system because only after the pro-European consensus among Democrats and Socialists was formed, the division within Serbian Radical Party occurred and the ideological space occupied by the relevant parties has …
Facing protests in Serbia: Patterns of New Competitive Authoritarianism
Recent literature suggests that the competitive authoritarian regimes emerging in the twenty-first century are more subtle and nuanced in comparison to the old regimes of the 1990s. Aiming to understand these differences in greater depth, this article explores how new competitive authoritarian regimes react to mass protests. The article focuses on the case of Serbia, a country where protests have been widespread both during the old regime of the …
Populistički Zeitgeist u “proevropskoj” Srbiji
In this paper we analyze the influence of populist ideas on the emergence and organization of new political parties in Serbia after the elections in 2007 and 2008. These elections represent the turning point in the development of the party system because only after the pro-European consensus among Democrats and Socialists was formed, the division within Serbian Radical Party occurred and the ideological space occupied by the relevant parties has …
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines
This article investigates the effects of Serbian semi-presidentialism and the proportional representation electoral system on democratic performances. Both electoral and political systems provide incentives for power-sharing mechanisms and the pluralistic character of the party system. However, in situations when one party becomes much stronger and predominant, there is a growing probability for the presidentialization of politics and excessive c…
Riding the wave of distrust and alienation – new parties in Serbia after 2008
Serbian party system is in the phase of reconfiguration which can be perceived as the outcome of domestic incentives (crisis of democratic transition and of democratic rule) and the international one (economic and migrant crisis). On one side, this reconfiguration includes emergence of predominant ruling party (Serbian Progressive Party, SNS) with strong leader and popular support; on the other side, the opposition camp has been atomized into num…
Montenegro, Nato and the divided society
In this paper we are investigating the political and social effects of Montenegro joining NATO. This issue is highly controversial and follows the political divisions in Montenegro, which motivated us to apply social cleavage theory. As method, we applied logistic regression clustered for standard error. We found that besides socio-demographic variables (ethnic division between Montenegrins and Serbs), the main line of the cleavage indicated by s…
Montenegro, Nato and the divided society
In this paper we are investigating the political and social effects of Montenegro joining NATO. This issue is highly controversial and follows the political divisions in Montenegro, which motivated us to apply social cleavage theory. As method, we applied logistic regression clustered for standard error. We found that besides socio-demographic variables (ethnic division between Montenegrins and Serbs), the main line of the cleavage indicated by s…
Populistički Zeitgeist u “proevropskoj” Srbiji
In this paper we analyze the influence of populist ideas on the emergence and organization of new political parties in Serbia after the elections in 2007 and 2008. These elections represent the turning point in the development of the party system because only after the pro-European consensus among Democrats and Socialists was formed, the division within Serbian Radical Party occurred and the ideological space occupied by the relevant parties has …
Journalists’ Perceptions of Populism and the Media
This chapter for the first time shows how journalists react to populist politicians and movements and what they think about them. It examines the reactions of journalists in serious and popular media to the presence of populism in 13 countries. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with around 50 journalists, the chapter explores popular definitions of populism; reasons for popularity; issues related to populism; consequences of populism; an…
Riding the wave of distrust and alienation – new parties in Serbia after 2008
Serbian party system is in the phase of reconfiguration which can be perceived as the outcome of domestic incentives (crisis of democratic transition and of democratic rule) and the international one (economic and migrant crisis). On one side, this reconfiguration includes emergence of predominant ruling party (Serbian Progressive Party, SNS) with strong leader and popular support; on the other side, the opposition camp has been atomized into num…
Noise againt the dictatorship: Battle for symbolic representation
In this paper, we approach the process of (political) representation from the perspective of symbols as subjects of representation. Focusing on the protest Noise against the Dictatorship held in Serbia in spring 2020, we explore how symbols can become representatives, how their meanings are created and re-created, and how these processes affect the identity construction of the constituencies, of us and the Others. In contrast to the traditional p…
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines
This article investigates the effects of Serbian semi-presidentialism and the proportional representation electoral system on democratic performances. Both electoral and political systems provide incentives for power-sharing mechanisms and the pluralistic character of the party system. However, in situations when one party becomes much stronger and predominant, there is a growing probability for the presidentialization of politics and excessive c…
Dimitri A. Stavropoulos: The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Facing protests in Serbia: Patterns of New Competitive Authoritarianism
Recent literature suggests that the competitive authoritarian regimes emerging in the twenty-first century are more subtle and nuanced in comparison to the old regimes of the 1990s. Aiming to understand these differences in greater depth, this article explores how new competitive authoritarian regimes react to mass protests. The article focuses on the case of Serbia, a country where protests have been widespread both during the old regime of the …
Artificial intelligence in the politics of great powers: Potential consequences to civil control of the military
Today artificial intelligence permeates all the pores of social life, including international relations and security, where the attention of the professional public is primarily drawn in the context of armed conflicts and rivalry of great powers. Scientific research has not sufficiently considered the consequences of its use to civilian-military relations, although it is a key institutional component of defence policy and an important aspect of n…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works)