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Structures and Cultures of Welfare in Transition: Europeanisation and Croatian social policy

This paper suggests that social policy reforms in countries in transition have a different dynamic to those in the most developed countries, being related in complex ways to economic (market-based) and political (pluralist democratic) reforms. This is illustrated through an examination of the case of Croatia where, in the context of war and authoritarian nationalism, the processes of transition were both specific and delayed. This paper seeks to provide a starting point for a more elaborate treatment of the structural and cultural features of social policy reforms, discussing formal and informal processes, the complex meaning of historical legacies and memories, and sets of new policy assemblages related to the role of diverse supra-national actors. The paper concludes by discussing the Europeanisation of Croatia's social policy and the likely continuance of an inconsistent and contradictory transition, marked both by high expectations of the state and a belief in the modernising nature of privatisation and the creation of markets.

social policy; Croatia; transition; Europeanisation

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