This policy brief aims to contribute towards a new democratization narrative in the region, in addition to the existing, but the fading idea of exogenous Democratisation via Europeanisation. While incumbent political parties rule based on contradiction, simultaneously breaking the European values they continuously preach, citizens in the region lack effective counterweight mechanisms to de-monopolize parties’ domination over state institutions and society. The new democratization narrative should primarily focus on endogenous democratization which will counterweight the existing illiberal power structures that currently dominate social and political life.
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