INSTITUCIONALNI PATRIOTIZAM ‘ORGANIZIRANE MANJINE’ KAO POLITIČKA SUDBINA HRVATA U BIH
INSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTISM OF ‘ORGANISED MINORITY’ AS A POLITiCAL DESTINY OF CROATS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The basic aim of this paper is to provide a theoretical deliberation of a political position of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It starts from the imminent fact of the political marginalisation which is a repercussion of the tyranny of the majority process. By interpreting two contemporary classics of political thought, Mancur Olson and Hanna Arendt, we try to prove that the Croats must constitute themselves into a political form of “organised minority” in order to compensate for their demographical inferiority. Furthermore, we want to prove that the response to the majority hegemony is an additional democratic effort which will result in so called contrademocracy. The later implies that the Croat political elites will organise institutions under their control on the highest efficiency level and that they will ensure the presence of best people in all positions of responsibility by their personnel policy. Organised minority can be constituted into inevitable political subject which will be a constituent subject of all future political system changes and which will influence public thinking of majority by its organisation and political efficiency. Finally, we claim that the process of creating efficient institutions would result in some sort of institutional patriotism which would compensate for the lack of basic consensus about common statehood and create the conditions for the creation of more just and sustainable Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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