A Protest, Coup d’État, or Internal Party Power Struggle

IF 0.1 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI:10.20901/pm.59.4.10

Sven Milekić

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The paper investigates war veterans as organisers of contentious politics in ‎post-war Croatia, by looking into two significant protests. Already amid the‎1990s War in Croatia, the first veteran associations were tied to the army or ‎governing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). After the HDZ government ‎ignored their demands in 1996, the main association gathering disabled veterans‎ announced a protest, shocking the regime. After defusing the situation ‎by meeting most of veteran demands, the protest against the Government ‎was transformed into a support rally for officials who helped the protesters’‎ cause. In 2014, veteran associations initiated a protest over, at first, officials’‎ speculations about PTSD cases among the local Serb population, framed ‎among the veterans as “aggressors”. As Prime Minister Zoran Milanović refused ‎to dismiss the Minister of Veterans and his associates, the veteran protest ‎outlasted the Government, including violent episodes in the government‎ building’s vicinity and ending in April 2016. The article proceeds to analyse ‎the disruptiveness of the protest, the repertoire and violence used, as well as‎ frames of meaning with which protesters justified their collective actions and‎ wished to appeal to wider constituencies. The article attempts to analyse the‎ motives behind the protest and links of protesters with different political actors‎– mostly HDZ – trying to show if veterans acted as independent political ‎actors or only as an extended arm of politicians. By using veteran associations’‎ documents, archival documents, media reports and literature, the paper‎ wishes to place the two case studies into the body of literature that describes‎ the decades-long patron-client relationship between veterans, HDZ and the‎ state.‎

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抗议、政变État或党内权力斗争

这篇论文调查了退伍军人作为年有争议政治的组织者‎战后的克罗地亚，通过调查两次重大抗议活动。已经在‎20世纪90年代克罗地亚战争，第一批退伍军人协会与军队或‎执政的克罗地亚民主联盟。HDZ政府之后‎1996年，主要的残疾退伍军人协会无视他们的要求‎ 宣布抗议，震惊了政权。局势缓和后‎通过满足大多数退伍军人的要求，对政府的抗议‎被转变为支持帮助抗议者的官员的集会‎ 原因2014年，退伍军人协会发起了一场抗议活动，起初抗议官员‎ 对当地塞族人口中创伤后应激障碍病例的推测‎退伍军人中的“侵略者”。总理佐兰·米拉诺维奇拒绝‎罢免退伍军人部长及其同僚，退伍军人抗议‎比政府更持久，包括政府中的暴力事件‎ 大楼附近，于2016年4月结束。文章继续分析‎抗议活动的破坏性、使用的曲目和暴力，以及‎ 抗议者为其集体行动辩护的意义框架，以及‎ 希望吸引更多的选民。本文试图分析‎ 抗议背后的动机以及抗议者与不同政治行为者的联系‎– 主要是HDZ——试图表明退伍军人是否是独立的政治人物‎演员，或者只是作为政客的延伸手臂。通过使用退伍军人协会‎ 文件、档案文件、媒体报道和文献、论文‎ 希望将这两个案例研究纳入描述‎ 退伍军人、HDZ和‎ 状态‎

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Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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0.40

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