Participative democracy in transition countries. The Macedonian case

Scientific Study from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, University Goce Delchev (Faculty of Law), course: Political System, language: English, abstract: Participative democracy is new phenomena in post communism countries, where were created specific model of democracy- combination of Western democratic institution and procedure and political culture developed on the base of communism and Turkish Imperium. Here participation is more declarative and stimulated by some NGO''s than tradition and usual political practice. In this book are elaborated different forms of participation at national and local level, indirect and direct. The content is based on analysis of relevant legislation, presentation of former research results and conducted research by author.


Jovan Ananiev is PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor of Political Systems at the State University ''Goce Delcev''- Shtip, Macedonia and Dean at the Faculty of Law. Since 2011 is Member of Commission against Discrimination and since 2013 Member of ECRI (European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) Councel of Europe, Strasbourg. He is author of number of books and papers and member of many international project teams.