ALBANIA’S DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRESS FROM A POLITICAL CULTURE APPROACH

Abstract

This study has a modest contribution in the discourse of democratization process for the post-communist countries from a perspective of political culture. Through the empirical analyses and findings in this research, I intend to find out the correlation that political culture has on the development of democratization process in Albania. Albania is an yuncommon icase istudy for istudying idemocratic iconsolidation since the icountry has a idistinct ipolitical ihistory, ia isui igeneris icase. This indicates that the icountry's ihistory over the iprevious few idecades has been imarked by multiple igovernment itransitions from iautocratic to idemocratic, with each losing idemocratic qualities and so ifailing to iconsolidate idemocracy. Furthermore, I am convinced that in order to proceed toward a consolidated democracy, we must first identify the variables that have the potential to influence the process. My objective is to focus solely on Albania's progress over these years of transition in order to expose variables such as political culture.