State-organised religion and muslims' commitment to democracy in Albania
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Europe-Asia studies, 2016, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 253-269
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ELBASANI, Arolda, State-organised religion and muslims’ commitment to democracy in Albania, Europe-Asia studies, 2016, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 253-269 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/61507
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This article questions why, and indeed how, Muslims have committed to democratisation in post-communist Albania. The explanatory framework merges the theoretical insights of the moderation paradigm with the specific devices that characterise the post-communist religious field in investigating Muslims' support for democracy. The empirical analysis draws on a within-case comparison of Muslims' behaviour in three consequential stages of democratic transitioneach marked by different configurations of institutional settings and ideological options, which we trace as potential explanations. The analysis suggests that institutional arrangements played the primary role. Yet, learning from the experience of dictatorship and from a ready pool of inherited Albanian-specific templates facilitated the consensual reclaiming of Islam in a local, pro-democratic, and pro-European manner.
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European Research Council (ERC) [269860]