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: Strategies of transformation; useful resources; social distance; value orientation
Summary/Abstract: The fall of socialism opened diverse possibilities for the development of post-socialism societies. The offered (by the political elite) and the then chosen, strategies for transforming society, valorise its existing resources and determine the manner of its integration into global processes. This analysis demonstrates that a systemic counter-indication has been built into the strategy of society transformation in Croatia (called liberal-nationalism), which necessarily presents an obstacle to developing liberal-democratic institutions, thus, consequently, disrupts the productive implementation of inherited resources and successful integration into world processes. In this strategy, relations towards the Other are categorized as selectively oriented ethnocentrism.

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