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Croatian presidential elections
Elections for the third Croatian president are the primary motive, but also an occasion for the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, a green political foundation, to induce a political discussion about the development of political culture in the country by portraying the elections on the new Croatian office website.

During the next few weeks our web pages will offer you the chance to read reviews, analysis and commentaries of authors that will mainly focus on social and economic conditions which surround these elections.

In the prospective texts we will seek to illustrate the context and momentum that provide the settings for these elections, current disputes and structural conditions that will certainly have an influence to the development of political culture in the country, instead of dealing with the profiles of candidates and their respective odds for becoming president.

Dominant campaign discourse, value systems and problem issues that are over or under emphasized will be the focus of contributions from authors that will help us in our effort to enrich political discussions about the perspectives of Croatia on the eve and after the elections.

Follow our pages which will weekly contribute to the discussions on democracy, political life, value systems and strategic interests of a country that will soon get a new directly elected president.

Dossier
European future after black-red past?
January 14, 2010 -

Still, it remains to be seen how two big political parties – HDZ and SDP – now significantly affected by the outcome of the presidential elections - will resolve their internal disputes and what will change within the electorate. Even more, it remains to see how new directly elected president will emancipate himself from his party background. 

Constitutional reforms announced for spring, continuation of the accession negotiations with the EU and decisive fight against the corruption now remain among first priorities. Country is now facing momentum where a whole society needs to be much more involved in pursuing reforms, not only State alone. In this context, integrative function of the new president can have a crucial role, outreaching broader support for the advocated change.

Vedran Horvat more»
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Presidential elections as a turning point - Croatia (once again) between Europe and the Balkans? – January 3, 2010 - However, despite the significantly low voter turnout in the first round (44%), the voters have, in addition to the general lack of confidence in the parties, perhaps estimated the relative insignificance of these elections with regards to the representative function of the future president. The results speak not only of the crisis of representative quality in society (as well as democratic deficit), but also of deep cracks in the parties themselves, which are far greater than mere fraction differences.

 

Vedran Horvat more»
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Who is going to get whom? – December 14, 2009 - Some hundred years ago, Vladimir Illyich Lenin, precisely, as well as cynically, formulated the basic problem of politics with the famous question "Who - whom?". Žarko Puhovski more»
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