Pregledni rad
EROSION OF SLOVENIAN SOCIAL POLICY
Srečo Dragoš
; Fakultet za socijalni rad, Sveučilište u Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sažetak
The paper looks into the regulation of social policy in relation to other policies in Slovenia, political parties’ approach to socio-political issues, the public opinion on these issues, and present approaches to social care. The subordination of social to economic policy increasingly undermines the welfare state, one of the most important social inventions of the previous century. The concept of an autonomous social policy, without which the preservation of the welfare state is impossible, was introduced into Slovenia very early. It was first formulated during the period between the two World Wars, when Slovenia was still a part of Yugoslavia, i.e. at the time when it first appeared in Scandinavian countries. After the Second World War, the socialist system diluted social policy into an instrumental ingredient of other policies. After Slovenia gained independence in the early 1990s, it took over the European concept of social policy (»mainstreaming«) which incorporates the same blind spot that was characteristic of the former, socialist social policy. As a consequence, Slovenia has now found itself in a situation in which not even one political party's program calls for the autonomy of social policy, with socio-democratic political parties being no exception in this respect. It is precisely this reason – rather than the economic crisis – that brought about the current erosion of social policy in Slovenia. The submission of social policy to economic policy, which in turn is submitted to neoliberal state politics, is an introduction into the crisis of the welfare state.
Ključne riječi
autonomy; social policy; welfare state; neoliberalism; social protection
Hrčak ID:
104555
URI
Datum izdavanja:
3.6.2013.
Posjeta: 1.490 *