Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v15i3.776
Reflections on International Actors and the Making of Social Policy in Croatia
Paul Stubbs
; Ekonomski institut, Zagreb
Abstract
Addressing the role of international actors in three pivotal moments in the development of social policy in post-independence Croatia, the article sees welfare reforms as complex interactive processes in which legacies and contexts matter. The mistrust created by an implicit social policy in the context of a new humanitarianism during the wars, compounded by the problems of externally driven reform projects, continue to limit changes in Croatia’s social welfare policies and practices. However, a delayed yet emergent Europeanisation, expressed in the Joint Memorandum on Social Inclusion, opens up four dialogic zones and potential alignments between EU thinking and Croatian realities: statistical, participatory, governance, and policy commitments and practice.
Keywords
international actors; reform; Croatia; Europeanisation
Hrčak ID:
30378
URI
Publication date:
16.11.2008.
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