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WHY CROATIAN FOOTBALL FANS BECAME ENGAGED POLITICAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS

The aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of influences that practices of state and city institutions, which duty is to control how Football club Dinamo Zagreb works in according with national laws, have on the behavior of fans. Besides that, it checks hypotheses that parts of fans aggressive behavior are structurally caused, and that in activist practices of fans, there is also a potential for the democratization of society. As fans organized in Bad Blue Boys, Together for Dinamo and Dinamo – that are we persistently ask of state and city institutions to observe the law, they can be seen as actors of the democratization of society, and close processes like unselective law enforcing and fights against corruption and discrimination. Methodologically, this paper is based on the tenets of case studies, media analysis, participant observation, and formal and informal interviews. This study confirms views that youth Croatians see corruption, bribe and biased, irresponsible work of state institutions as most significant problems in Croatian society, and explains how football fans during the fight for their club became one of the most successful fighters for Croatian civil society and democratization of Croatia.

Football fans, Croatia, Civil society

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