Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia

STEFANO BIANCHINI Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna, Italy MAJA BOJADZIEVSKA Professor of comparative literature at the University of Skopje, Macedonia BASHKIM ISENI Researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Populations Study at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. HASAN JASHARI Associate Professor and the Director for Doctoral studies at the South East European University in Tetovë, Macedonia DEJAN MAROLOV Assistant Professor at the Goce Delcev University in Stip, Macedonia KRISTEN RINGDAL Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, and a senior researcher with the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO, Oslo, Norway ANDREW ROSSOS Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada ISO RUSI is a journalist. He started his professional career with Mlad borec in 1971, and later cooperated with Danas (Zagreb), Delo (Ljubljana), Teleks (Ljubljana), and Na a borba (Belgrade)GORDANA SILJANOVSKA-DAVKOVA Professor of Consitutional Law and Political System at the Law Faculty 'Iustinianus Primus' in Skopje, Macedonia VESNA OPAR Professor of Public Relations at University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia KATERINA SPASOVSKA Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Western Carolina University, USA IRENA STEFOSKA Assistant Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at the Institute of National History, University of Skopje, Macedonia ILO TRAJKOVSKI Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Skopje, Macedonia FRANCES TRIX Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University, USA BILJANA VANKOVSKA Professor of Political Studies and head of the MA in peace and development at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Macedonia ANDREW WACHTEL Dean of the Graduate School and the Bertha and Max Dressler Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

• List of Figures Preface About the Authors Introduction; S.P.Ramet PART I: VALUES & AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION Civic Virtues, Liberal Values, and the Civic Culture; S.P.Ramet Macedonian Values in a European Perspective; K.Ringdal, A. Simkus & O.Listhaug Values of Albanians and Macedonians in Comparison; H.Jashari & A.Simkus Macedonia and the EU: Reshaping Social Values in Fluid Times; S.Bianchini PART II: THE SYSTEM Constitutional Engineering and Institution-building in the Republic of Macedonia, 1991-2011; B.Vankovska Political Parties, Values, and Democratic Consolidation in the Republic of Macedonia, 1991-2011; G.Siljanovska-Davkova Understanding the Ohrid Agreement; D.Marolov The Development of Civil Society in the Republic of Macedonia: Modeling State-civil Society Relations; I.Trajkovski PART III: ETHNIC ISSUES One State, Divided Society: the Albanians in Macedonia; B.Iseni Ethnic Minorities of Macedonia: Turks, Roma, and Serbs; F.Trix PART IV: EDUCATION ANDMEDIA The Media and Values in Macedonia: between Regulation, Privatization, Concentration, Commercialization, and Pluralization; V.Šopar Uncertain Future: The Albanian-language Media in Macedonia; I.Rusi & K.Spasovska Some Aspects of History Textbooks for Secondary Schools: the Case of Macedonia; I.Stefoska PART V: LITERATURE Imagining the Nation: The Representation of Historical Figures in Literature/Culture; M.Bojadzievska The Novel as Carrier of Cultural Values: Kice Kolbe's The Gavrilov Women; A.Wachtel Afterword; A.Rossos For Further Reading Index

“This edited volume will provide a wealthy pool of information and basis for comparison in any future studies on North Macedonian society’s gradual, and often painful, advance toward a fully-fledged civic-value-based democracy.” (Josef M. Djordjevski, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 44 (3), 2020)