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Exit Yugoslavia: longing for mononational states or entrepreneurial manipulation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rudi Klanjšek  and
Sergej Flere
Rudi Klanjšek*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Sergej Flere
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
*
* Corresponding author. Email: rudi.klanjsek@uni-mb.si
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Abstract

The study analyzed whether the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the establishment of succeeding mono-national states was the expression of “longing” of mass proportions on the part of the nationalities within respective federal units. Using the data from two pan-Yugoslav surveys from the period preceding the dissolution, results were obtained that indicated a very limited support for this hypothesis. More specifically, results indicated that support for emancipation was rather weak, among youth in 1986 and even among the adult population in 1990, although some significant mean differences between the federal units and between major nationalities within them were evident. Specifically, opinions favoring independence were detected among Kosovo Albanians and later among Slovenians in Slovenia. In addition, findings also indicated that those with higher socioeconomic status were not more inclined toward independence. Results thus pointed more towards the idea that the dissolution was indeed instigated by a small group of “political entrepreneurs” not captured by the survey data.

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dissolutionnational independenceYugoslaviaYugoslav identitycollapsepolitical entrepreneurship
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 39 , Issue 5 , September 2011 , pp. 791 - 810
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Copyright © 2011 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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