Naslov
Political modernization and democratization in Croatia: facilitating and inhibiting factors

Autori
Maldini, Pero

Vrsta, podvrsta
Radovi u časopisima, znanstveni

Izvornik
Southeastern Europe (2023)

Status rada
Prihvaćen

Ključne riječi
modernization ; democratization ; social structure ; political culture ; post-communist transition ; consolidation
(Modernization, democratization, social structure, political culture, post-communist transition, consolidation)

Sažetak
The paper deals with Croatian democratization as the most important process of its political modernization and identifies the main facilitating and inhibiting factors and their influence on its outcomes. The analysis is carried out at the sociostructural, institutional-political and sociocultural levels, while the outcomes of democratization are evaluated in relation to the features of a consolidated (substantive) democracy and the basic features of political modernization. It is shown that the specific sociostructural and sociocultural features – modeled by contingent factors – had a decisive influence on the context, processes and actors of democratization and its outcomes. It turns out that elite-driven democratization in such a specific context produced further limited modernization. Despite the normative-institutional consolidation and stability of democracy, incomplete sociostructural modernization and sociocultural adaptation, as well as democratic deficits, indicate that the political modernization of Croatian society and the state is still an open process.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija

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