stubbs zrinscak citizenship and social welfare in croatia: clientelism and the limits of...
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+Citizenship and Social Welfare in Croatia: Clientelism and the limits of 'Europeanisation'
Paul Stubbs and Sinia ZrinakEdinburgh June 2013
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+From Regimes to Assemblages
n Emphasis on hybridity, heterogeneity, fluidity, instability and unfinished nature of both citizenship and welfare rarely coherent and unitary regimes
n Conjunctural analysis /thick contextualisation open to the play of contingency
n Europeanisation (de-/re-)constructs subjectivities, identities and policy domains
n No necessary correspondence between legal regulations and lived practices importance of talking back
n Citizenship and welfare framed by relationality and multiscalarity
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+Clientelism: Governance, Citizenship and Redistribution n Political science: clientelism as patronage and exchange
n Linked to capture of state, public administration, judiciary, mass media, etc., even within formally democratic systems
n Particularistic governance Exclusivist citizenship Asymmetrical (re-)distribution
n Kitschelt and Wilkinson: contingent; direct; viable; predictable; compliance; monitoring; enforcement
n Clientelism within welfare assemblages Southern European and post-communist models
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+Political Clientelism in Croatia
n Tuman HDZ: authoritarian nationalism and charismatic clientelism state subsidies; public sector jobs; privatisation proceeds
n Sanader HDZ: modernising, Europeanising and/or re-scaling clientelism?
n Origins in political capitalism (upanov)
n Sub-national clientelisms: cities, regions, minority parties
n Enrolment of diaspora and Bosnian Croats
n Importance of veterans associations
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+Social Clientelism in Croatia I
n Thesis of social welfare and radical break too simplistic
n Centres for Social Work rationing in war conditions: categorical (displaced refugees), symbolic (deserving/undeserving) and instrumental-particularistic (veze)
n Bosnian Croats: dual citizenship/residence allows access to welfare benefits and services; Cro budget spending on Cantonal health and education programmes
n Croatian Serbs: slow removal of de jure obstacles to welfare benefits; de facto obstacles remain; little or no recognition of fluidity of return and settlement
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+Social Clientelism in Croatia II
n War veterans: symbolic category (0.5 m. on register); partially hidden in constructed categories of benefit recipients
n Passive, compensational approach not geared to reintegration of ex-combatants
n Evidence: 2013: new Govt 8,689 pupil-student scholarships cost 5.4m (avge 620); 2012: War pensions (HV) 70,579 beneficiaries (avge 700); 2011: 12,000 disability pensions per 100,000 pop; 138,962/328,018 war-related; 2010: 51.7% of social protection expenditure on sickness/healthcare and disability
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+Conclusions and Dilemmas
n Does the concept of clientelism help or hinder analysis
n Problems of statistics/data/evidence hidden as a result of the same processes
n Relationship between welfare clientelism and residual/neo-liberal approaches to social policy not clear
n Role of international actors: EU, World Bank and relationship to economic and financial crisis/austerity/new European periphery needs more exploration
n Importance of wider regional/post-Yu context
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+Thank you for your attention