DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN CROATIA (Comparison of Politicians, Directors and the Rest of the Population)
DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN CROATIA (Comparison of Politicians, Directors and the Rest of the Population)

Author(s): Alija Hodžić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, 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: It is too early to draw firm conclusions on the reasons generating obvio­ usly diverse processes of transformation in the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. These reasons might be viewed in two ways: as the sphere within which the elites, established by the fall of socialism, formed their strategies to gain power and to govern, and as the sphere encompassing how these strategies were perceived (including the values that were being offered to them) by the majority of the members of these societies. It might one day turn out that in some countries the chosen strategies of transformation would have played a major role in the events that followed, in some of them impeding, and in others freeing, their overall potentials. The ability of a society (its socio-eco­ nomic readiness) to introduce political and economic changes should also incorporate its willingness to implement them. No doubt, the absence of such a will transforms economic, social and natural resources into lifeless capital.

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