ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the efficacy of that regime's strategy by examining its effect upon mass electoral behavior in the 1935 election. It also examines the brief and often overlooked experiment in the late 1930s with aspects of what today would be known as a "consociational" strategy, which was doomed by the international developments of that period. The book discusses the evolution of the party's thinking on cultural diversity up to 1950, and the ways in which the party's own unbalanced ethnic and regional support affected the implementation of this thinking. It draws the threads of the book together by relating the findings and conclusions that emerge from the data covering 60 years of Yugoslav elections to the issue of the effect and success of the various regime-strategies for achieving political incorporation and cohesion.
