Prethodno priopćenje
The Ruling Elite and the Delegitimation of the Privatization Project
Drago ČENGIĆ
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Sažetak
ln this work the author analysed those features of the Croatian
privatization project which had a decisive influence in destroying
the political reputation of the previously ruling elite, gathered
around the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the ruling
Croatian party from 1991 to 1999, as well as some of the
fundamental legitimation patterns in the privatization policy of
the new political elite. The conclusions of the author's analysis
are the following: First. Although the privatization model and its
execution were marked as "projects of a high social, economic
and political risk", in Croatia this was not sufficiently taken into
consideration. Second. The internal contradictions of the
Croatian privatization model were never seriously discussed.
Third. Due to the course of privatization in the first several years
of its realization, a large amount of Croatian companies' assets
ended up in government funds, which led to a repeated stateism
over the companies in possession of valuable assetsand to the
slowing down of the process of modernization in them. Fourth.
The legitimation pattern of the previous political elite in the
privatization project comes actually down to several fundamental
elements: that the former non-ownership system is being
abandoned through privatization, that the latter is instrumental
in achieving a fair distribution of social wealth as well as popular
capitalism, and that the aim is to ensure the development of
"market economy analogous to Western Union". The stresswas
on utopian goals of privatization, while in reality, privatization
was reduced to filling the state budget and developing a
primitive type of capitalism. The new political elite has retained
within the utopian goals of privatization the "righting of wrongs"
from not such a distant past", while it has quite openly increased
the number of pragmatic goals: from the state's withdrawal
from companies to directly filling the budget with funds obtained
through the privatization of large systems.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
31544
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2000.
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