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The Rescaling of Social Policies in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Welfare Parallelism and Local State Capture

In this chapter, we focus on the rescaling of social welfare in three post-Yugoslav countries: B-H, Croatia and Serbia. These are the three most populous post- Yugoslav states, sufficiently different from each other as to merit comparative analysis. We seek to account for “the paradox of large-scale experimentation [and] limited explicit reform” (Stubbs and Zrinščak, 2019, p. 287) in all three countries. We concentrate here on the politics of scale and the specificities of ‘the urban’ in welfare arrangements and discourses. A core message is that the conceptualization of ‘the urban’ and ‘the local’ is fully contingent on complex social change which does not merely redefine, but rather completely transforms the construction of scale. Thus, the chapter combines a focus on the theoretical and methodological challenges in analysing urban social policies, with empirical analysis of our three case study countries, together with a brief note on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

social policy, scale, post-Yugoslav space, state capture

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