The Making of a New Economic Elite in Serbia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2977586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mladen Lazić (0000-0003-1518-7990, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 531-548 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/soeu-2015-630402 |
| OpenAlex | W4298360249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay presents analyses of new research data about the economic elite in Serbia: its constitution, main characteristics, and the changes affecting it under the conditions of systemic social transformation.The general analytical framework of this special issue is presented; the essay's central part offers a brief analysis of the process of sociohistorical change in Serbia in the period from the late 1980s to the present, including the change of bases on which the new economically dominant group and other main social groups have been formed.This period may conditionally be divided into three stages, which do not have sharply defined lines of division: the breakdown of the socialist order (1988-90), followed by a phase of blocked transformation (1991-2000), yielding ultimately to the gradual 'normalization' of the functioning of a (semi-)peripheral capitalist order (2000 to present). PrologueThe contributions to this special issue of Südosteuropa are dedicated to illuminating the process that formed the economically dominant stratum of the new capitalist class that emerged during the protracted postsocialist transformation in Serbia.What makes this issue distinct is not only the unified specific goal but also the common 'means' employed of understanding this phenomenon: analyses of the economic elite's changing recruitment patterns, its constantly improving economic position, and its diversified political and value orientations are all based on the same set of surveys, undertaken throughout the entire period of Serbia's systemic transformation (1989-2012).Further on in the process, each of the authors necessarily implemented the common theoretical-hypothetical framework on which these surveys were founded, bearing in mind that their theoretical perspective, concepts, and terminology had been determined in advance by one author.Such an approach has certain disadvantages, most importantly that there is little room for individual interpretative variations: the focus of the studies on one social stratum and its relations to other strata, the list of 'basic aspects', the structural
Elite · Political science · Politics · Regional Development and Management Studies
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |