Restructuring of contemporary political-economic community and reformism of public policy as a way of getting out of the current crisis

• Published in: Politička misao Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 71 - 78
• Main Author: Zagar, Davorin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Croatian; English; Turkish
• Published: 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Democracy; Higher Education; Interaction; International Cooperation; Political economy; Public Policy; Reform; Scientific cooperation; Social organization; Trust
• ISSN: 0032-3241

In this article the author argues the thesis on the necessity of scientific cooperation, interaction and holistic approach for appropriate explanation of the contemporary crisis. It is of great importance to define conceptual frameworks of the crisis, together with main spots in the analysis of the crisis amalgam. The key thesis is the necessity of transformation in the structure of political-economic and social organisation of contemporary states/societies. It includes transformation of completeness of interactions between structures and actions which constitute societal community through reformistic confidence in public policy. With the help of Parsons and Luhmann, the author indicates the structure of contemporary imbalance which he perceives as spillovers of the economic in all other societal subsystems. He displays the thesis of democratization of democracy. Finally, he demonstrates the structural character and the means of functioning of the contemporary crisis on the example of Higher education. Reprinted by permission of Fakultet politickih znanosti u Zagrebu