Power Preservation, No Matter the Means. Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F48135445%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000039" target="_blank" >RIV/48135445:_____/25:N0000039 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/58/4/29/205227/Power-Preservation-No-Matter-the-MeansPopulism-and" target="_blank" >https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/58/4/29/205227/Power-Preservation-No-Matter-the-MeansPopulism-and</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747" target="_blank" >10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Power Preservation, No Matter the Means. Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
Original language description
This article examines the Serbian political leadership—the president and government alike—by addressing the dominant political figures’ narratives. We communicate with the theoretical aspects in the study of populism and conspiracy theories as this nexus enables us to examine the specific nature of the domestic politics in Serbia. In our view, the ruling elite complements its populist discourse with conspiracy theory to ensure its survival in power, by regularly generating fear about the threat posed to Serbian statehood and lack of apprehension for Belgrade’s geopolitical preferences and exploration of foreign policy alternatives. Our analysis fills a major gap in the literature, since there has been only sporadic research on this topic and none of it has focused on the merger of populism and conspiracy theory. The findings we have reached—largely those of the elite’s self-victimization narratives and their dissemination of anti-Western sentiments—provide for a fresh contribution to the debate concerning the power struggle and the state of democracy in Serbia, especially given the fact that the key political stakeholders draw heavily on pro-regime media outlets to readily disseminate their self-serving accounts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
ISSN
0967-067X
e-ISSN
1873-6920
Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
29-51
UT code for WoS article
001632650000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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