Cleavages Under Communism: Voters and Elections in Bosnia & Hercegovina, 1978–1990

Josip Glaurdić, Christophe Lesschaeve and Ensar Muharemović

Europe-Asia Studies, 2025, vol. 77, issue 9, 1379-1404

Abstract: Scholarship on political divisions under communism remains limited. We used the data from Bosnia & Hercegovina’s last three non-democratic and the first democratic elections in the period 1978–1990 to expose the sources of support for the communist regime. Our analysis demonstrates that the pattern of communists’ local power had little to do with the economy, but was instead determined by ethnicity, education and exposure to World War II violence. This is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the social foundations of communist regimes, the enduring political impact of war violence and the collapse of Yugoslavia into interethnic conflict.

Date: 2025
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