TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vuković, Danilo
AU  - Mrakovčić, Marko
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://ralf.ius.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1355
AB  - Drawing on a 2018 survey on a convenience sample of 716 Serbian and 393 Croatian legal professionals, we assess their attitudes towards Serbian and Croatian judiciaries against their key dimensions: independence, efficiency, quality, and fairness and impartiality. Legal professionals in both countries have little confidence in their judiciary, which we take as a proxy for legitimacy. Hence, both judiciaries are faced with an internal crisis of legitimacy. Respondents also scored judiciaries low on each of the key dimensions, while regression analysis confirmed that these attitudes are strong predictors of legitimacy. The results indicate that apparent differences in historical trajectories have not undermined common post-transitional political struggles over the role of judiciaries.
PB  - Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon
T2  - Europe-Asia Studies
T1  - Legitimacy, Independence and Impartiality: How do Serbian and Croatian Legal Professionals Assess Their Judiciaries?
EP  - 967
IS  - 6
SP  - 945
VL  - 74
DO  - 10.1080/09668136.2021.2019195
UR  - conv_3148
ER  - 

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mrakovčić, Marko
AU  - Vuković, Danilo
PY  - 2019
UR  - https://ralf.ius.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1136
AB  - In this paper we analyze attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia with regards to the judicial systems - the trust in judicial institutions and satisfaction with their performance. In the first part of the paper we present arguments of the cultural and institutional approach to explaining the foundations of trust in institutions, then define the characteristics of a "good" judiciary in the context of the democratic rule of law, and present the socio-political context of judicial reform in both countries over the last twenty years. In the second, empirical part of the paper we analyze the data collected through the online survey conducted among members of the legal professions in 2018 in Croatia and Serbia. The results from both countries show a low level of trust in judiciary and deep dissatisfaction with the functioning of judiciary on a list of dimensions. Our analysis confirms the link between (dis)trust in institutions and (dis)satisfaction with their work and thus also the assumptions of the institutional perspective on trust. We conclude that the obtained results point to an "internal" crisis of trust in judiciary in both countries, which accompanies the evident "external" crisis of the Serbian judiciary and the latent tensions in and around the Croatian judiciary.
PB  - Sveuciliste & Zagrebu, Fak Politickih Znanosti, Zagreb
T2  - Politička misao / Croatian Political Science Review
T1  - 'Internal’ crisis of judiciary? Attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia towards judiciaries in their countries
EP  - 105
IS  - 1
SP  - 75
VL  - 56
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year = "2019",
abstract = "In this paper we analyze attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia with regards to the judicial systems - the trust in judicial institutions and satisfaction with their performance. In the first part of the paper we present arguments of the cultural and institutional approach to explaining the foundations of trust in institutions, then define the characteristics of a "good" judiciary in the context of the democratic rule of law, and present the socio-political context of judicial reform in both countries over the last twenty years. In the second, empirical part of the paper we analyze the data collected through the online survey conducted among members of the legal professions in 2018 in Croatia and Serbia. The results from both countries show a low level of trust in judiciary and deep dissatisfaction with the functioning of judiciary on a list of dimensions. Our analysis confirms the link between (dis)trust in institutions and (dis)satisfaction with their work and thus also the assumptions of the institutional perspective on trust. We conclude that the obtained results point to an "internal" crisis of trust in judiciary in both countries, which accompanies the evident "external" crisis of the Serbian judiciary and the latent tensions in and around the Croatian judiciary.",
publisher = "Sveuciliste & Zagrebu, Fak Politickih Znanosti, Zagreb",
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Mrakovčić, M.,& Vuković, D.. (2019). 'Internal’ crisis of judiciary? Attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia towards judiciaries in their countries. in Politička misao / Croatian Political Science Review
Sveuciliste & Zagrebu, Fak Politickih Znanosti, Zagreb., 56(1), 75-105.
https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.56.1.03
conv_3058

Mrakovčić M, Vuković D. 'Internal’ crisis of judiciary? Attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia towards judiciaries in their countries. in Politička misao / Croatian Political Science Review. 2019;56(1):75-105.
doi:10.20901/pm.56.1.03
conv_3058 .

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https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.56.1.03 .,
conv_3058 .