Comparative analysis of economic and social policy development in Croatia and Slovenia

• Authors: Babić Zdenko , Lučev Josip
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia have shared a common political and economic history for centuries. Slovenia was more developed but was relatively closely trailed by Croatia in basic economic and social indicators as recently as the late 1980s. In the intervening three decades, the economic and social inequalities between Croatia and Slovenia have significantly increased and these two countries are in many ways at opposite ends of the spectrum among the members of the EU. This text acknowledges the traditional explanations of this result—i.e. the negative effect of the Homeland War in Croatia between 1991 and 1995 its human and economic sacrifices which were enormous compared to the very brief and limited conflict in Slovenia; and that Slovenia became a full member of the EU in 2004, whereas Croatia could reap the benefits of EU membership since only 2013. However, this text moves beyond these two arguments and proposes that there are additional explanatory variables for divergent tendencies in economic and social development. It analyses the institutional positions in Croatia and Slovenia (comparing them to the Visegrád countries), the growth models in Slovenia andbCroatia, and the way in which social policy was delivered since the transition in Slovenia and Croatia in order to show that a significant part of the explanation for these downward divergent trendsbin Croatia lies within the way these two main policies were prepared and implemented in those two countries.

PL

Republika Chorwacji i Republika Słowenii od stuleci mają wspólną historię polityczną ibgospodarczą. Historycznie Słowenia była bardziej rozwinięta, ale Chorwacja pod koniec lat osiemdziesiątych XX w. zbliżyła się do Chorwacji pod względem podstawowych wskaźników ekonomicznych i społecznych. W ciągu kolejnych trzech dekad nierówności gospodarcze i społeczne między Chorwacją a Słowenią znacznie wzrosły i obecnie te dwa kraje znajdują się pod wieloma względami na przeciwległych krańcach wśród członków UE. Artykuł potwierdza klasyczne wyjaśnienia tego stanu, wskazując m.in. na negatywny wpływ wojny domowej w Chorwacji w latach 1991–1995 oraz członkostwo Słowenii w UEbod 2004br., podczas gdy Chorwacja może czerpać korzyści z członkostwa w UE dopiero od 2013 r. Artykuł wykracza jednak poza te dwa argumenty i proponuje dodatkowe zmienne wyjaśniające dla rozbieżnych tendencji w sferze gospodarczej i społecznej. Analizuje specyfikę instytucjonalną Chorwacji i Słowenii (porównując je z krajami wyszehradzkimi), modele wzrostu oraz sposób realizacji polityki społecznej od czasu transformacji w obu tych krajach. Dowodzi, że za rozbieżne tendencje w Chorwacji i Słowenii odpo wiada w dużym stopniu sposób przygotowania i wdrożenia polityki gospodarczej ibspołecznej wbtych dwóch krajach.

Keywords

EN

post-socialist economies; Slovenia; Croatia; institutional reforms; social policy

PL

gospodarki postsocjalistyczne; Słowenia; Chorwacja; reformy instytucjonalne; polityka społeczna

• Publisher: Instytut Polityki Społecznej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 47(4)
• Pages: 47-71

Contributors

author

Babić Zdenko

• Zagreb University Faculty of Law

author

Lučev Josip

• Libertas International University

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