ABSTRACT This paper provides a comparative analysis of social movements’ characteristics and capacities to struggle against illiberal tendencies and incite political change in Serbia and North Macedonia. First, we discuss the illiberal elements of political regimes in the countries in question, Serbia and North Macedonia. Then, we provide a comprehensive overview of progressive social movements in the two countries, formed and organized as a response to different authoritarian and non-democratic tendencies. Finally, we point to some differences in their organizing, coalition-forging and issue-defining principles, which, we believe, may help to explain the relative success of social movements in North Macedonia in producing relevant political outcomes, compared to the weak political impact of social movements in Serbia. Empirical data were collected during the summer of 2018 through in-depth interviews with members of social movements in North Macedonia and Serbia.

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大梦小步：塞尔维亚和北马其顿的社会运动为民主而斗争的比较观点

摘要本文对塞尔维亚和北马其顿的社会运动的特征和与非法倾向作斗争和煽动政治变革的能力进行了比较分析。首先，我们讨论有关国家塞尔维亚和北马其顿的政治制度中的非法因素。然后，我们对这两个国家的进步社会运动进行了全面概述，这些运动是针对不同专制和非民主倾向而形成和组织的。最后，我们指出了它们在组织，结盟和定义问题的原则上的一些差异，我们认为，与弱小的政治影响相比，这可能有助于解释北马其顿的社会运动在产生相关政治成果方面的相对成功。塞尔维亚的社会运动。