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Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formed after World War I was a model example of difficulties arising in the process of building the multinational and multiethnic states in the Balkans. The State mired in disputes between supporters of unitarization and federalism was a subject of gradual Serbization, which was expressed by imposition of Serbian systemic pattern and domination of Serbs in central authorities. In the mid 1920s political particularisms led to the collapse of parliamentary system and political destabilization, implied by the acts of ethnic and national violence. The decision of king Alexander Karađorđević to suspend the constitutional order and establish a dictatorship was an attempt to inhibit the process of State disintegration and expressed a tendency to marginalize the national representation and to restore the sovereign’s dominant role in the political system, which was a characteristic feature of the evolution of the Balkan states.
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The study of political activity among the elderly has prompted some American researchers to take up research on “political gerontology” in the late 1970s. One of the effects of the increasing political activity of seniors, but also the growing number of 65+ voters was the emergence a new type of party that uniquely identified with senior citizens and in the wider sense ‒ the elderly, focusing both on demands typical for this electorate. The first party of its kind in Europe was the Italian Pensioners’ Party, founded in October 1987. The Balkan pensioners’ parties in the majority of cases were among the typical post-communist “demanding parties”, expressing the frustration of people, who lost social prestige and financial stability during the economic transformation. Some of them noted significant success by entering into the ruling coalitions (Serbia, Slovenia). Their successes generated the creation of new pensioners’ parties in Kosovo and Macedonia. The programs of Balkan pensioners’ parties are directed to the entire society, expressing sensitivity to the interests of excluding groups but it is hard to find visible references to elderly problems understood as a social and demographic challenge. The political activity of the Balkan “grey parties” does not seem as a form of elders’ emancipation but only as a defense of the pensions and social privileges inherited from the communist times.
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