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2024-03-28T00:45:08ZInternational and Macedonian Endeavours, Obstacles and Solutions Regarding Citizens’ Participation of Roma at Local Level
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/21983
Title: International and Macedonian Endeavours, Obstacles and Solutions Regarding Citizens’ Participation of Roma at Local Level
Authors: Dimitrovska, Milka
Abstract: Equality in terms of equal opportunities for every person or group of individuals, including prohibitory regulations regarding discrimination, is of immense importance of contemporary complex societal, legal and political mechanisms. The Roma are among the permanent vulnerable categories both in Europe and in the Republic of North Macedonia as far as exercising human rights is concerned. Therefore, the legal and political mechanisms protecting the Roma rights require consistent and long-term attention and improvement, which this paper attempts to provide. Namely, the paper aims to identify the legal basis for protection, but also the obstacles posed by universal, European and Macedonian legislature regarding the Roma rights and to introduce solutions for boosting citizens’ participation of the Roma at local level. Even though the existing legislative basis covers vast area, certain new possibilities within the legal and political system could be unraveled, dominantly by using the method of qualitative contents analysis of legal acts, strategic documents and empirical studies, thus concluding solutions that comply both with strategic ‘top-down’ policy making and ‘bottom-up’ measures and specific actions. This legislative and policy analysis comes to the conclusion that the continuity of affirmative action including the indispensable census, affirmative action concerning the municipalities with Roma inhabitants, targeted approach and changes in the primary school boards is needed that would benefit local government policy making subjects, experts and civil activists in the field of protection and development of human rights.2020-01-01T00:00:00ZInternational and Macedonian Endeavours, Obstacles and Solutions Regarding Citizens’ Participation of Roma at Local Level
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/21982
Title: International and Macedonian Endeavours, Obstacles and Solutions Regarding Citizens’ Participation of Roma at Local Level
Authors: Dimitrovska, Milka
Abstract: Equality in terms of equal opportunities for every person or group of individuals, including prohibitory regulations regarding discrimination, is of immense importance of contemporary complex societal, legal and political mechanisms. The Roma are among the permanent vulnerable categories both in Europe and in the Republic of North Macedonia as far as exercising human rights is concerned. Therefore, the legal and political mechanisms protecting the Roma rights require consistent and long-term attention and improvement, which this paper attempts to provide. Namely, the paper aims to identify the legal basis for protection, but also the obstacles posed by universal, European and Macedonian legislature regarding the Roma rights and to introduce solutions for boosting citizens’ participation of the Roma at local level. Even though the existing legislative basis covers vast area, certain new possibilities within the legal and political system could be unraveled, dominantly by using the method of qualitative contents analysis of legal acts, strategic documents and empirical studies, thus concluding solutions that comply both with strategic ‘top-down’ policy making and ‘bottom-up’ measures and specific actions. This legislative and policy analysis comes to the conclusion that the continuity of affirmative action including the indispensable census, affirmative action concerning the municipalities with Roma inhabitants, targeted approach and changes in the primary school boards is needed that would benefit local government policy making subjects, experts and civil activists in the field of protection and development of human rights.2020-01-01T00:00:00ZPossible Support of the EU for the Republic of Macedonia for Regional and Rural Development
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/21981
Title: Possible Support of the EU for the Republic of Macedonia for Regional and Rural Development
Authors: Dimitrovska, Milka
Abstract: The conditionality of the EU for the potential member states and its respective pre accession funding prepare these states for the future possibilities and circumstances
within European policies and forms of cooperation. The goal of this paper is to
establish the possible conceptual and financial support of the EU for the Republic of
Macedonia, regarding the regional and agricultural policy. The regional policy of the
EU which is aimed at diminishing economic, social and infrastructural disparities and
the concept of balanced regional development of the Republic of Macedonia
necessarily have overlapping points with the agricultural policies since rural areas in
RM are underdeveloped and comprise the living area of about 40% of the
Macedonian population. Therefore, it is of great significance to determine sustainable development strategy in these terms, dominantly to the end of improving economic activities and living conditions of the rural population.
The basic method applied in the paper is the analysis of the EU and RM policies and
necessary means for agricultural and regional development. The main expected
results can be seen in identification of the circumstances and conditions that have an impact on the effectiveness of these developmental trends and possible opportunities that RM would take in former areas upon EU accession.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZVarieties of Political Clientelism: A Typology of Clientelist Exchanges in the Western Balkans and Beyond
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/15305
Title: Varieties of Political Clientelism: A Typology of Clientelist Exchanges in the Western Balkans and Beyond
Authors: Bliznakovski, Jovan2021-06-01T00:00:00Z