Teorijske osnove političke doktrine HPSS od 1904. do 1914.
Theoretical Basis of Political Doctrine of HPSS From 1904 to 1914

Summary/Abstract: This study is a part of a larger work on political doctrine of HPSS (Croatian popular peasant party) in the period of its foundation until 1914. The author analyses the basic theoretical concepts of the political doctrine which were displayed by the founders of the party Stjepan and Antun Radić: it concerns concepts of society and state, nation, folk, sovereignty, as well as the categories of social stratification. Even though the founders of HPSS did not display their political doctrine systematically as a rounded theoretical concept but just occasionally in a pragmatic political texts, the basic concepts of this doctrine are defined as exceptionally consistent and on a high theoretical level. Concepts of society and state, folk and nation correspond with contemporary social theories of that time (Spencer’s and Durkheim’s). Viewed from today's perspective, the basis political concepts and the theory of the society which is assumed by them, essentially belong to a functionalist type of social theory. Nevertheless, the influence of the pragmatic political thinking of HPSS can be recognized in determination of some theoretical categories, which limits their analytical reach.

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