The Weakest Link of Kosovo’s Democracy

It is beyond any doubt that new democracies suffer many shortcomings. They often happen as a result of wrong development directions; as a trend that does not ensure positive and quick changes in society; as constantly absent human capacity to move the society forward, or in worst cases, are presented with abusive actions towards rights, freedom and the property of citizens. All these actions, and not only these, come and go, interact but also incite one another, at the time when society failed to establish all mechanisms to avoid these phenomena. The only one that is constant and always accurate is the address of generator of these phenomena – governments mandated by citizens to run the country. When they assume this mandate in a correct and fair manner, we see a good start, but the practice shows that in new democracies abuses start with assumption of power.
So, which is the weakest link of the Kosovar democracy? In present edition we have brought articles written earlier, which target the weak link in the chain of the Kosovar democracy.  And, as you can see, experts and those that critically judge this issue see different weak links in this chain. Even though, they have common denominator – those that bear the responsibility –occupiers of the “democratic” power of the country.There are several organizations and individuals that have published the articles we are bringing in this edition. We have carried out a retrospective of critical judgment, in the past two or three years, regarding some widespread phenomena in Kosovo that are considered to be the biggest obstructions to development of the country. In most cases, authors behind these articles possess expertise, experience and also research carried out beforehand.
This edition brings articles published before, but our aim is to summarize them in a single place, in order to easy the job of readers and users of these materials when they need to see what the civil critical thinking in Kosovo is regarding elaborated issues.

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