Mechanisms of Centralisation towards a Post-Yugoslav Dominant Class

The Case of Slovenia

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ID2436727
AuthorsCarlos González-Villa (0000-0002-7247-7356, University of Castilla-La Mancha, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume72
Issue2
Pages185-206
Publication date2024-06-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/soeu-2023-0042
OpenAlexW4396609997
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article analyses Slovenia's independent statehood as the result of interactions between three relatively autonomous societal groups which had coexisted, albeit not harmoniously, since the liberal reforms of 1960s socialist Yugoslavia: the political bureaucracy, the ideological-cultural bureaucracy, and the technocracy. The transformation of these three groups into the dominant class in the newly independent Slovenia materialised through mechanisms of mediation of state power, as identified by Göran Therborn. Specifically, these mechanisms of centralising the three groups consisted of coercion, ideology, and extraction. Over the course of the 1980s, the three groups coordinated and began to project themselves as one class. They presented themselves to the working class through the emerging state institutions, and completed the transition to capitalism in Slovenia by dismantling the Yugoslav federation. Ultimately, the configuration of this dominant class through the process leading towards sovereignty created the conditions for its subsequent reproduction

Centralisation · Class (philosophy · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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