Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2017
Summary
This is the final volume in a series devoted to civic and uncivic values in the post-Yugoslav region. The following books have been published previously:
— Democratic Transition in Slovenia: Value Transformation, Education and Media, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner, Texas A&M University Press (2006)
— Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education and Media, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Matić, Texas A&M University Press (2007)
— Civic and Uncivic Values: Serbia in the Post-Milošević era, edited by Ola Listhaug, Sabrina P. Ramet, and Dragana Dulić, Central European University Press (2011)
— Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia: Value Transformation, Education and Media, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Ola Listhaug, and Albert Simkus, Palgrave (2013)
— Bosnia-Herzegovina since Dayton: Value Transformation, Education, and Media, edited by Ola Listhaug and Sabrina P. Ramet Longo editore (2013)
— Civic and Uncivic Values in Kosovo: Value Transformation, Education and Media, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Albert Simkus, and Ola Listhaug, Central European University Press (2015)
— Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe: A Question of Justice, edited by Christine M. Hassenstab and Sabrina P. Ramet, Palgrave (2015).
In addition, the volume The Liberal Project and the Transformation of Democracy: The Case of East Central Europe, Texas A&M University Press (2007) by Sabrina P. Ramet is associated with this series and focuses on many of the same themes as the volumes listed above.
The purposes of this series and of this volume in particular are: to probe and analyze the progress in the region in the building of liberal democratic systems operating according to the rule of law and respecting the equality of people, including religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities; to show how civic values are important for the building of stable democratic systems; to track the performance of the Yugoslav successor states in building free and professional media; and to assess the state of the local economies, focusing especially on unemployment and poverty.
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- Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor StatesAccomplishments, Setbacks, and Challenges since 1990, pp. xxi - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017