The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 39-53
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The gravest challenges facing democracy in the Balkans are problems not of ethnicity or postcommunism, but of citizen disaffection and disillusionment.

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