NASTAJANJE POLITIČKE ELITE U HRVATSKOJ (Komparacija političara s direktorima i ostalom populacijom)
THE EMERGENCE OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN CROATIA (Comparison of politicians with directors and the rest of the population)

Author(s): Alija Hodžić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Constitutional Law, Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: transformation strategies; useful resources; social distance; value orientations
Summary/Abstract: The collapse of socialism opened up various possibilities for the development of post-socialist societies. The strategies offered (by political elites) and then chosen for the transformation of society valorize its resources and determine the way of its integration into global processes. The analysis carried out shows that a systemic contradiction (called liberal nationalism) is embedded in the strategy of transformation of Croatian society, which necessarily appears as an obstacle in the construction of liberal-democratic institutions, and which then, individually, hinders the productive use of available resources and successful integration into the ruling world processes. In that strategy, the attitude towards the Other is called selectively oriented ethnocentrism.

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