Nordmakedoniens demokratiska förändringar - En kvalitativ fallstudie om Nordmakedoniens demokrati under perioden 2008–2018

This thesis is a case study who analyzes the democracy in North Macedonia during the period2008-2018. The method which was applied in this study was an ideal-type of democracy.Democracy is defined on the grounds of Robert Dahl’s polyarchy and its seven institutionswhich are; elected representatives, free and fair elections, universal suffrage, the right tocandidate in elections, freedom of speech, alternative information and the right to organize.The material on this work includes reports from the European Commission, Freedom House,the Swedish Government Offices and CountryWatch.The results of this study showed that regarding the four institutions; elected representatives,universal suffrage, the right to candidate in elections and alternative information there havebeen no significant changes during the period 2008-2018. The institution the right to organizeis the only institution where we can see a positive change during the period 2008-2018. Onthe contrary the institutions; free and fair elections and freedom of speech was thoseinstitutions that became more restricted during the period 2015-2018. The institution free andfair elections became more restricted because of the political crisis in recent year, for examplethe wire-tapping scandal which took place in 2015. To sum up, we can both see positive andnegative changes between the period 2008-2018. One thing that we can note is that NorthMacedonia does not fulfill the seven institutions that characterize an polyarchy and that NorthMacedonia has some work left to do, to achieve a more democratic and independent politicalsystem