State Capture through Media Clientelism in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

State Capture through Media Clientelism in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina contributes to the understanding of the rise of stabilitocracies and competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans by examining the case of freedom and independence of the media.

Aleksandra Dragojlov is a political science researcher at KTU in Kaunas, Lithuania. She graduated with a PhD and an MA in European studies from Cardiff University in 2018. Her research interests include media freedom and civil society in the Western Balkans and its impact on EU integration. She also has a previous postdoctoral fellow position from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in political sciences at the Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

1 Introduction 2 Theoretical Framework: De-Europeanization of the Media-Media Capture and Political Clientelism in the Western Balkans 3 State Capture and Strategies of Media Clientelism in Vüi-'s Serbia 4 Ethnic Divisions and Political Clientelism vis-à-vis the Media in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 Conclusion