ABSTRACT
The Yugoslav political environment of the 1980s can best be described through an analysis of two structural spheres of political behavior and three dynamic levels of collective political action. Separation of the structural and dynamic characteristics of the political situation is motivated by a belief that the collective behavior of political actors is heavily influenced by political structures and that political structures are altered by collective behavior. In fact, the mixture of the old and new structural and dynamic factors has created fundamentally "new situations" which in turn have altered the structures and dynamics of political action in Yugoslavia today. In this chapter I will define and explain the dynamics and structures which have emerged out of the "new situations." In short, I will attempt to describe and explain the new political environments that have emerged in contemporary Yugoslavia.
