RELIEVING BOSNIA FROM THE ORBIT OF DYSFUNCTIONAL CONSOCIATIONALISM: REASONING UNDER THE LIGHT OF LOCAL COMMITTEES EXPERIENCE IN KOSOVO AND ETHNOCOMITOLOGY

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Although power-sharing arrangements are seen as favorable political formulas for the societies divided along ethnic lines, they are problematic in some aspects. Particularly, once put into operation they generate a kind of gravity pull avoiding the self-transformation of polity despite consociational arrangements’ visible malfunction because of some reasons. This study essentially tries to point out that power-sharing arrangements are relied upon the consent among the ethnic elite which firmly control their own mono-ethnic patronage networks, thereby sustaining and cementing ethnic segregation. It claims thats that ethnic committees of UNMIK in pre-independence Kosovo may offer a model to solve the problem of mono-ethnic patronage networks in Bosnia in an unconventional way.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, consociations, ethnic patronage, ethnocomitology

RELIEVING BOSNIA FROM THE ORBIT OF DYSFUNCTIONAL CONSOCIATIONALISM: REASONING UNDER THE LIGHT OF LOCAL COMMITTEES EXPERIENCE IN KOSOVO AND ETHNOCOMITOLOGY

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Her ne kadar yetki-paylaşımı sistemleri etnik anlamda bölünmüş toplumlar açısından elverişli siyasal formüllerden biri olarak görülse de sorunsuz da değildirler. Özellikle, uygulamaya konulduklarında söz konusu siyasal yapının çeşitli sorun ve tıkanmalardan kaynaklanan sorunlara rağmen kendisini dönüştürmesini engelleyen bir çekim etkisi yaratmaktadırlar. Bu çalışma yetki paylaşım sistemlerinin özde mono-etnik patronaj şebekelerini sıkı bir biçimde kontrol eden siyasal elit arasındaki uzlaşmayla ayakta durduğunu, dolayısıyla etnik ayrılık ve düşmanlıkların kemikleşerek sürmesine neden olduğunu göstermeyi hedeflemektedir. Burada ki iddia Kosova’daki UNMIK idaresinin oluşturduğu etnik komitelerin Bosna Hersek’teki yetki paylaşım sisteminden kaynaklanan tıkanıklığın aşılması açısından dikkat çekici çözümlere esin vermiş olduğudur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Bosna, Kosova, Makedonya, konsosyonal system, etnik patronaj, etnokomitoloji

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