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Some aspects of the Democratization, modernisation and transition of the Croatian Society (Challenges and Divisons)

This paper discusses some aspects of democratization, modernization and transition processes in the Croatian society. Focusing on the contemporary social situation the authors attempt to assess the achievements of the transitions in Croatia. In this endeavour the past was reviewed from the xixth century onward and many controversies were found which are relevant to current social divisions and impede the completion of the transition process. Relying on domestic and foreign theorists of modernization, the phenomenon of post-socialism is debated as it emerges in Croatia. Some divisions within Croatian society still clearly present are detected, such as the trauma of war, the problem of work ethics, nontransparent privatization, mistrust of institutions, and the unreached habitus of the two-way responsibility of democracy. The paper concludes with a recommendation on the necessity of a change in mentality, respectively social consciousness, but also within social structures at the level of practical life.

Croatia ; democratization ; modernization ; transition ; socialism ; post-socialism ; re-traditionalization, privatization ; culture of trust ; work ethics ; civil society

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