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

Autori
Stubbs, Paul ; Zrinščak, Siniša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare

Urednik/ci
Kayepov, Yuri ; Barberis, Eduardo ; Bo, Carlo ; Cucca, Roberta ; Mocca, Elisabetta

Izdavač
Edward Elgar Publishing

Grad
Cheltenham

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
337-351

ISBN
978 1 78811 614 5

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

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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