TY - JOUR
T1 - Dual Substate Citizenship as Institutional Innovation
T2 - The Case of Bosniatextquotesingles Brcko District
AU - Stjepanovi, Dejan
N1 - The research for this article was facilitated by the CITSEE project (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia),
based at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. CITSEE was funded
by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh
Framework Programme (Grant no. 230239), and the support of the ERC
is acknowledged with thanks.
PY - 2015/11/13
Y1 - 2015/11/13
N2 - This article analyzes the politics and constitutional position of the Brčko District of BiH, drawing on this case to inform several important debates in the field with regards to questions of federalism, citizenship, and electoral politics. The article shows that the condominium logic of territorial arrangement has profound implications for substate citizenship in Brčko. It argues that apart from territorial options and consociational institutional mechanisms substate citizenship is an important element of conflict management. Though often neglected in the literature, dual substate citizenship could be considered an instrument of conflict management and, as this article argues, as a model of institutional innovation in divided societies.
AB - This article analyzes the politics and constitutional position of the Brčko District of BiH, drawing on this case to inform several important debates in the field with regards to questions of federalism, citizenship, and electoral politics. The article shows that the condominium logic of territorial arrangement has profound implications for substate citizenship in Brčko. It argues that apart from territorial options and consociational institutional mechanisms substate citizenship is an important element of conflict management. Though often neglected in the literature, dual substate citizenship could be considered an instrument of conflict management and, as this article argues, as a model of institutional innovation in divided societies.
U2 - 10.1080/13537113.2015.1095043
DO - 10.1080/13537113.2015.1095043
M3 - Article
VL - 21
SP - 379
EP - 400
JO - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
JF - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
SN - 1353-7113
IS - 4
ER -