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Boys Must be Boys: Gender and the Serbian Radical Party, 1991–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jill A. Irvine  and
Carol S. Lilly
Jill A. Irvine
Affiliation:
Religious Studies Program/Women's Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, USA. Email: Jill.lrvine@ou.edu
Carol S. Lilly
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA. Email: lillyc@unk.edu
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On 27 June 2004, Serbian voters went to the polls for the third time in a year to choose a president. The winner of the first two rounds of voting, Tomislav Nikolić, Deputy to the President of the extreme right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), lost the third round of voting to the more liberal Borisav Tadić by just under 8 percentage points (53.2 to 45.4), and the Radicals failed to form a ruling coalition in government. Nevertheless, more than five years after the last war in the disintegration of the Yugoslav state, the largest political party in the largest of the successor states has been characterized as the most extreme right party in the Balkans today. Indeed, the Radicals have been an enduring force in Serbian politics for the past decade and a half, sometimes ruling in coalition with Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). SRS founder Vojislav Šešelj, a flamboyant, obstreperous, highly influential figure, and his fellow Radicals have sought and in many ways succeeded in shaping the post-communist transformation of Yugoslav politics and society, calling for a return to the true spirit of Serbia, when the nation was strong because its men defended its honor as well as its borders.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 93 - 120
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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