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Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education, and Media
. Ed(S): Ramet, Sabrina Petra; Matic, Davorka
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hardcover. With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. This is a series of studies that examine the development of Croatia in the aftermath of communism and the war that marred the transition. Editor(s): Ramet, Sabrina Petra; Matic, Davorka. Series: Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 406 pages, 5 b&w photos, 21 tables, 10 graphs, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWYC; HBJD; HBLW; JPFN; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780.
With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. Central to the Croatian experience has been the issue of nationalism and whether the Croatian state should be defined as a citizens' state (with members of all nationality groups treated as equal) or as a national state of the Croats (with a consequent privileging of Croatian culture and language, but also with a quota system for members of national minorities). Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Matic have gathered here ... Read more
With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. Central to the Croatian experience has been the issue of nationalism and whether the Croatian state should be defined as a citizens' state (with members of all nationality groups treated as equal) or as a national state of the Croats (with a consequent privileging of Croatian culture and language, but also with a quota system for members of national minorities). Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Matic have gathered here ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Series
Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585445875
SKU
V9781585445875
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About . Ed(S): Ramet, Sabrina Petra; Matic, Davorka
SABRINA P. RAMET is a professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has served as visiting scholar at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies, Georgetown University. Holding a Ph.D. from UCLA, she is the author of many books and articles. DAVORKA MATIC is head of the department of sociology at the ... Read more
Reviews for Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education, and Media
Sabrina Ramet and Davorka Matic's Democratic Transition in Croatia is a fascinating collection of essays by both eminent specialists and promising younger scholars. It will be required reading for all those interested in recent Croatian history, as well as in the question of democratic transition throughout the former-Communist world. - Marko Attila Hoare, Senior Research Fellow, University of Kingston