Institute of Sociological, Political and Juridical Research

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The Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research was founded in 1965 with the decision of the Council of the University “St. Cyril and Methodius". Since then, the ISPJR is devoted to scientifically examine the sociological, political and legal phenomena in the country, to encourage and to organize appropriate researches for social development, to educate young scientist and to develop scientific staff. Институтот за социолошки и политичко-правни истражувања е основан во 1965 година со одлука на Советот на Универзитетот "Св.Кирил и Методиј" во Скопје. Од тогаш, ИСППИ е посветен на научното истражување на социолошките, политиколошките и правните појави во земата, на поттикнување и организирање соодветни истражувања за развој на општеството, на подготвување на научен подмладок и усовршување на научен кадар.

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2021 Local Elections in North Macedonia: A Prelude to Alternation of Power?
(University of Graz, 2022)
Prior to the 2021 elections, North Macedonia had an entrenched tradition of local-level voting for the central-level incumbent. The party leading the central government has always won most mayoral positions at the local elections since they were first held in 1996, making the lower-level contest a simple showcase of the support for the ruling parties. The October 2021 elections were quite different: the opposition right-wing Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (Vnatreshna makedonska revolucionerna organizacija – Demokratska partija za makedonsko nacionalno edinstvo, VMRO-DPMNE) claimed a dominant win, resulting in a resignation of the ruling center-left Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (Socijaldemokratski sojuz na Makedonija, SDSM) Prime Minister (PM) Zaev and the appointment of a new government with changed personnel from the side of SDSM. This outcome is due to the general public’s disappointment with the performance of the SDSM-led government, especially regarding persistent corruption, the inability to reinstate rule of law following the disclosed abuses from the Wiretapping Affair (2015), and the lack of further progress regarding EU-membership despite heavy national concessions such as the name change (2019). The election results can also be read as a symptom of the population’s major disillusionment with the prospect of opening EU accession negotiations soon. Following these developments, a change of power can be expected, with VMRO-DPMNE eyeing to reclaim the central government (after their 2017 exit) at the next parliamentary elections which could take place as late as 2024.
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Captured states and/or captured societies in the Western Balkans
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-02-06)
Cvetičanin, Predrag
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Bliznakovski, Jovan
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Krstić, Nemanja
This article proposes the new concept of societal capture for analysing informal practices implemented by political elites in Western Balkan societies. In contrast to the notion of state capture, which refers to a mechanism of exploitation of state and public resources by political and economic elites, the concept of societal capture denotes a mechanism of domination of political elites over civil society actors (citizens, trade unions, NGOs, religious institutions), and economic actors (private companies and private media), aiming to perpetuate their political rule. The article describes and illustrates three core mechanisms of societal capture and points out that notions of state capture and societal capture refer to different types of informal practices in terms of their aims, preconditions for functioning, mechanisms used, outcomes, levels of secrecy, and their social effects.
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"Macedonism" as Nationalism - Between the National Identity and Political Reality
(Institute for Sociological, Juridical and Juridical Research, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" - Skopje, 2020)
Petar Atanasov
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Bojana Naumovska
The subject of analyses of this paper are the attitudes, perceptions and the feelings of high educated young Macedonians regarding their Macedonian national identity. We will be presenting the answers of generation born in 1980s, in the Republic of Macedonia, young people with university degrees and higher, mostly well situated and having successful professional careers. The main subject of research are their perceptions and feelings regarding their Macedonian National Identity and their ethno-cultural belonging. The theme is recently redebated especially after the signing of the good neighborly relations agreement between Macedonia and Bulgaria and the ‘Prespa Agreement’ with Greece and the eventual attempts for ‘final resolution’ of the ‘Macedonian Question’. We will argue that the attitudes, perceptions and the feelings for their own national identity are filled with strong affections, that the Macedonian identity is equally powerful and active as the other Balkan national identities, that probably the ‘Makedonism’ as nationalism did not succeed to achieve more significant development prior the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries and that is why the Macedonian state project was late. The Macedonian national/state identity, even after 75 years of existence, is still in process of stabilization. In the analyses we use the data from the original research, which is conducted by qualitative approach, through organizing four focus groups in Skopje, with 28 participants.
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Interest groups’ access in new democracies: evidence from North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-09-28)
This article examines the interactions of interest groups and political institutions in three post-communist countries, at present EU-acceding states. Based on representative surveys of interest groups, it shows that interactions of interest groups with political institutions are more frequent than usually assumed. Nevertheless, they significantly vary across political institutions and types of groups. The direction of lobbying is somewhat different than in established democracies because of the predominance of the executive and weak legislative institutions. Group type differences demonstrate strong business dominance which might be even greater than in established democracies. Ordinal regression analyses confirm these results. However, the findings suggest that provision of political and technical information also accounts for interest groups’ access, which sheds light on the important functions that these organizations perform even in unconsolidated democracies.
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Symbolic Aspects of Nation-Building: The Story of Three Versions of the Preamble of the Macedonian Constitution
(Конрад Аденауер Фондација во Република Македонија и Институт за демократија „Социетас Цивилис“, 2013)
Bliznakovski, Jovan
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
(nstitute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research – University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje, Macedonia, 2017)
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Starova, Nita
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Hierarchies of Identities in the Macedonian Multicultural Society: Findings from a Survey of Student Population
(THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH GROUP ON POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND MENTALITIES (The EPAM Research Group), 2016-04)
Hristova, Lidija
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In multicultural societies as the Macedonian one, the attachment of citizens to particular identity traits is important for the democratic stability and peace. The aim of this paper is to find out how students from different ethnic origins in the R. Macedonia relate to their identity traits, especially to their national and ethnic identities, and relative to other identity traits. The basic assumptions are based on a phenomenon called "minority effect", according to which members of minority groups tend to attach greater importance to minority affiliations that are particularly important for their group identity (language, religion, ethnicity, tradition, etc.). Aside from importance of identity traits, the emotional and behavioural components of these attachments were also examined. The research results show that regardless of the ethnic origin, students attach greatest importance to their identities connected to their immediate social environment (family, friends), but also religion. In accordance with the “minority effect” hypothesis, religion and then ethnicity, are perceived by the ethnic Albanians as a strong cohesive and mobilising factor, whereas that is not the case with the ethnic Macedonians. When it comes to nationality, the responses suggest that for ethnic Albanians it has marginal importance (through the cognitive, emotional and the action component), while ethnic Macedonians show controversial relation to their national identity.
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Civil Society in New Democracies: What Is Old and What Is New in the Relationship between the State and Civil Society?
(The institute for the study of societies and knowledge at Bulgarian academy of sciences; The Bulgarian Sociological Association, 2019)
Civil societies in the post-Communist new democracies are largely regarded as underdeveloped and not sufficiently influential in national politics. After the initial stages of democratization, when the role of civic mobilization and pluralistic associations was recognized in several instances, the predominating picture has become that of a weak civil society. This evaluation is even more relevant with regard to the new East European democracies. These conclusions are derived predominantly from research on the NGO sector, while other associations, such as trade unions and business associations, are far less studied. The analysis in this article is based on fresh empirical data on the political behavior of civil society and interest groups in Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The author focuses on classic themes in interest groups literature, including the characteristics and structure of the populations of national interest groups, their organizational characteristics and their relationships with political institutions. The analysis shows that, sharing similar contexts of democratization, Europeanization, and with a shared past in a federal state, interest groups in Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia show remarkable similarities. Most of the research findings are in line with the literature on interest groups in old democracies, but there are a number of differences that indicate the rather poor quality of the relationship between the state and civil society.
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ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF DATA SHARING AND DATA PRESERVATION AMONG SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCHERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
(Balkan Social Science Review, 2020-06-25)
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The paper aims to analyse current practices and attitudes towards research data sharing among social science researchers in the Republic of North Macedonia. Considering the growing importance of the principle ofopen access to research data, particularly data collected with public funding, and the unification ofdata sharing practices on a global level, the goal is to examine the sharing and archiving potential for research data in the Republic of North Macedonia. According to the findings, a significant amount of research data is created in the country. Despite being predominantly financed from international funds, respondents’ positive attitudes towards data sharing and the satisfactory degree of willingness for depositing data into an accredited data archive/repository, demonstratea good potential in the country for saving existing data towards further use of existing data for new scientific purposes.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCING OF THE MACEDONIAN EPIC FOLK SONGS
(INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY “Ss. CIRYL AND METHODIUS” - SKOPJE, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
In the course of the past centuries, the Macedonian folk song embraced all significant moments of the lives of the Macedonian people. These songs pay tribute to the years of servitude, resistance, military feats, whether individual or group, spontaneous or organized. Throughout the conducted research, the question we focused on was whether these Macedonian songs created in the course of the 19th century -period of active struggle for liberation and independence of the Macedonian nation; evoke feelings of patriotism among the young in contemporary time when the Republic of Macedonia has acquired its sovereignty and independence. For the purpose of determining the influence of music on the emotions, and identifying the emotions, thoughts, ideas and behavior ‘touched upon’ and evoked by the Macedonian epic folk song, experimental research was conducted. The experiment was realized in a time period of 2 hours with a group of 18 students that participated on a voluntary basis. The findings from the analysis of the emotions experienced by the respondents in the experiment indicate that the respondents can identify the different emotions, thoughts and ideas embodied in two popular Macedonian epic folk songs. Hence, these epic songs (especially when listened with lyrics) not only evoke negative emotions but cause negative thoughts and ideas as well. In this sense, the main conclusion is that the Macedonian epic folk songs created in 19th century still “‘touch upon” the present generations.

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