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Croatian Social Policy: The Legacies of War, State‐building and Late Europeanization
Author(s) -
Stubbs Paul,
Zrinščak Siniša
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00651.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , welfare state , political science , state (computer science) , political economy , bridge (graph theory) , social policy , european union , corporate governance , welfare , economic system , sociology , economics , economic policy , law , politics , medicine , finance , algorithm , computer science
This article outlines the differences and commonalities between social policy developments in Croatia and those in Central Europe. In Croatia, issues such as national identities and the redefinition of citizenship, war, state‐building and crisis management have produced a complex mix of statist centralization and parallelism of welfare actors at the central and local level. While subject both to neo‐liberal pressures to privatize provision, and later to European Union influences, both of these came later, and were more mediated, than in Central Europe. Croatia forms a bridge to studying the uneven welfare arrangements of other countries in South‐East Europe, marked as they are by complex governance arrangements and the presence of social development and postwar reconstruction discourses .