Voting after transition: Political preferences of Serbia’s transitional losers
Economic crises create specific social conditions that affect voter preferences and behaviors. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 reached Serbia a year later, causing a major shock to the fragile Serbian economy, already burdened by the legacies of wars and international isolation dur...
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| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2025/0353-57382502501J.pdf |
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| Summary: | Economic crises create specific social conditions that affect voter
preferences and behaviors. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 reached
Serbia a year later, causing a major shock to the fragile Serbian economy,
already burdened by the legacies of wars and international isolation during
the 1990s, compounded by inequalities and uncertainties stemming from the
delayed transition. Subsequent elections brought the collapse of the
post-2000 political consensus, with many liberal and social democratic
parties never recovering. This led to the domination of the populist Serbian
Progressive Party (SNS) in the party system from there on. The main
hypothesis of this article posits that the 2008 crisis solidified the pool
of transitional losers composed of low skilled workers, the unemployed, low
educated, rural populations, and elderly, providing continuous support for
SNS ever since. The authors investigate whether the socioeconomic status of
these groups still correlates with SNS votes, even though the party has been
in power for 12 years. If the correlation stands, it implies that past
economic traumas continue to influence voter preferences to this day. The
study utilizes original data from two nationwide public opinion surveys. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |