Author: Philipp Kuntz | Journal of Democracy

Philipp Kuntz is lecturer in political sociology at Högskolan Dalarna in Falun, Sweden. He is completing his doctoral dissertation on Serbia’s stolen elections in comparative perspective at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

Stolen Elections: The Case of the Serbian October

Mark R. Thompson
Philipp Kuntz

Slobodan Milošević fell in the fall of 2000 after he tried to pervert national election results. He had tampered with elections before and survived. What made 2000 different, and what are the lessons to be learned from it?