A Class of Its Own - Patronage and its impact on Social Mobility in Kosovo

There are serious doubts to whether Kosovo is an open and just society. Previous research conducted by Vesna Pešić indicates that much of the region does not have open and just societies. Since the 1990s, the post-socialist transformation of Serbia took a different path than other regional countries and today it is not an example of a successful societal transformation. The hypothesis is that the same holds true for Kosovo, where we observe a continuous process of the closure of the political elite.