Name and Surname
Nemanja Batrićević
Affiliation
Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro
Contact email
nemanja.batricevic@gmail.com
Short Biography
Nemanja Batrićević is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro. He holds PhD in Comparative Politics from the Central European University. His primary interests include voting behaviour, psychology of group relations, nationalism and democratization. In terms of scope, although not exclusively, the focus of his research is mostly on the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe. During his studies, he also specialized in the field of quantitative research method in social sciences. At the Faculty of Political Science, he teaches courses Political System of Montenegro, Comparative Public Policy, Methodology in Political Science and Advanced Methods of Political Science Research. His previous academic work on has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Democratization, East European Politics, Politics, Europe-Asia Studies and Social Justice Research.
Research abstract
The success of democracy heavily depends on citizens’ engagement in the democratic process and their attitudes towards democracy. Rather than existing in isolation, democratic beliefs form a network of interconnected attitudes known as the democratic belief system (DBS). Understanding the structure of DBS across different age cohorts is crucial for assessing youth movements’ abilities to mobilize wider public against the erosion of democratic institutions and norms. This research project proposes conceptualizing DBS as a network of attitudes and analyzes its structure (density, consistency, centrality) in order to tackle a number of previously unanswered questions: How similar is the structure of DBS between countries of the WB? How coherent is DBS across age cohorts within WB countries? How youth’s vision of democracy affects the pattern of political participation and society’s resilience to democratic backsliding?
Project proposes comparative analysis of DBS, composed of eight dimensions (features of democracy), using European Social Survey (ESS) Rounds 6 and 10, which is a rare example of international survey containing comparable survey items on evaluation of democracy in the Western Balkan countries.