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Globalna ekonomska kriza i obnavljanje konsenzusa blagostanja
Global Economic Crisis and Renewal of Welfare Consensus

Author(s): Neven V. Cvetićanin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: welfare state; reactualization; global economic crisis; global welfare consensus; moderated Left; moderated Right; pluralism; new economic paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The text is discussing the possibility of Welfare State reactualization in the perspective of global economic crisis which endangers the neoliberal economic paradigm. First of all, the text represents the principles of the classic Welfare State model which was realized after the Second World War in Europe. The possibility of reactualization of some of these principles afterwards is investigated in the text. The essay comes to the conclusion that so called “Welfare Consensus” between moderated Left and moderated Right needs to be restored for creation of a large social basis which can enable one complex postneoliberal politics. This postneoliberal politics asks for a new economic paradigm, and this new paradigm can be founded only by a moderated Left and a moderated Right consensus, which was previously realized in the classic Welfare State as the defense against all adventurous political projects.

  • Issue Year: XLVII/2010
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 31-54
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian