ABSTRACT
Contrary to the theoretical assumptions and political practices of developed democracies, the authorities, the media, and the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina experience correlating multiple negative influences. Instead of interacting with, criticizing, and encouraging each other, agents of public communication (government, the media, the public) restrain, stifle, and obstruct one another. This behavior has become the norm since the first multi-party elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990, accompanied by the distortions of the Bosnian War in 1992–1995 and the political pathology of the postwar period.
