Cekikj, Aneta

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Cekikj, Aneta

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Cekikj, Aneta

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anetac@isppi.ukim.edu.mk

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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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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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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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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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Discrimination in the Macedonian multiethnic society: perceptions of inequality among the student population
(2014)
Hristova, Lidija
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One of the fundamental problems of the multicultural societies is the feeling of marginalization and even exclusion of minority groups from society, which is closely linked with a motivation for political mobilization and action. Therefore, the goal of the presented research is to find out how the student population from different ethnic origins in the R. Macedonia experience discrimination. More specifically, the paper seeks to identify the prevalence of discrimination, to identify the spheres of life in which such discrimination is most present and the categories of citizens who are privileged or marginalized in our society. There is awareness of a widespread discrimination in Macedonian society in the most important areas of life. The bases for discrimination are numerous (ethnicity, social status, as well as friends and connections), where political affiliation is the most important factor for privileged treatment in society. The differences in perceptions between ethnic Macedonians and ethnic Albanians are in the ranking of the grounds for discrimination. However, party-political affiliation is a factor of impact for which there is the greatest concurrence of opinions and views between the two ethnic groups. When it comes to ethnicity, ethnic Albanians rank it higher than ethnic Macedonians in all areas of life examined that is in line with the main assumption of this research based on the phenomenon of the so-called minority effect.
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BETWEEN THE ETHNIC AND THE CIVIC IDENTITY – ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE STUDENT POPULATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
(2013)
Hristova, Lidija
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The research of the ethnic and national identity in a multicultural society such as the Macedonian one is relevant in reference to the question how those who identify with their ethnic group position themselves towards the broader political community. Does the strong attachment towards one’s own ethnic group, especially when minority groups are concerned, means absence of attachment towards and identification with the state, as many authors who study social identities show? Taking into consideration the Macedonian social context, we have set off from the assumption that it was possible for these two identities to be mutually exclusive, but also compatible. In a survey of student population in the R. Macedonia, four categories that express the relation of ethnic versus national identity have been offered. The results proved the general hypothesis– namely, the minority effect- according to which the minority group gives greater significance to the characteristics of their own minority belonging. However, the largest majority of ethnic Albanians chose modalities that indicate compatibility of the two researched identities, even in cases when they emphasize their ethnic background. This could be an encouraging indicator in a multicultural and divided society, but still the question remains what almost half of the examined population of ethnic Albanians mean when they choose the categories that contain both ethnic and civic traits. Some of the results which refer to the attachments to different categories and the presence of the participative component, partly provide an answer to this question.

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