Serbia's Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution as Manipulation? A Cultural Alternative to the Elite-Centric Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2109003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marko Grdešic (0000-0001-5810-1179, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 774-803 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417516000359 |
| OpenAlex | W2464318965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 48 |
Why did nationalism and socialism combine during Serbia's 'anti-bureaucratic revolution'? This article critiques the elite-centric approach prevalent in the literature and suggests a cultural argument instead. Three interconnected 'elective affinities' brought nationalism and socialism together and separated them from a weak liberal alternative: (1) the emergence of bureaucracy as a 'floating signifier'; (2) the search for enemies and a predilection for conspiracy theories; and (3) anti-intellectualism with special emphasis on the search for 'one truth.' The elite-centric approach is assessed by looking at actors who, if the thesis is correct, should have been the least likely adopters of nationalist ideas
Argument (complex analysis) · Bureaucracy · Economics · Elite · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Socialism · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
From Paperwork to “Mechanized Administration”
The Hybrid Discourse of the Serbian Antibureaucratic Revolution
Provincial, Proletarian, and Multinational
Antibureaucratism” as a Yugoslav Phenomenon
Thirty Years of Yugoslavia’s “Antibureaucratic Revolution”
Revolutionary Origins of Political Regimes and Trajectories of Popular Mobilization in the Late Communist Period
Looking Back at Milošević’s Antibureaucratic Revolution
Public sphere and experience
Saviours of the Nation’
The Discourse of Politics in Action
Fantasmas balcánicos
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
From Voting to Violence
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Socialist Unemployment
Public Opinion, the Working Class and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Praxis
Debating the End of Yugoslavia
Kosovo
The Organizational Weapon
Serbia’s Antibureaucratic Revolution
Thinking about Yugoslavia
Ethnicity without groups
Heavenly Serbia
Yugoslavia in 1989 and after
Explaining the Yugoslav meltdown, 1
Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe
Praxis
Broken Bonds
Balkan ghosts
Milosevic
Milosevic
Europe from the Balkans to the Urals
Nationalizing states in the old ‘New Europe’ – and the new
The social construction of reality
Ethnic groups in conflict
From Yugoslavism to Serbism
From Class to Nation
The Organizational Weapon
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
Elective Affinities of the Protestant Ethic
Max Weber's Elective Affinities
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |