Na putu od socijalizma ka kapitalizmu: stavovi mladih u Bosni i Hercegovini o ekonomskoj ulozi države
On the road from socialism to capitalism: Attitudes of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina on economic role of the state

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to examine the intensity and spread of valueorientations of economic liberalism and redistributive statism among young peoplein Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at three points in time – before the collapse ofthe socialist social order (1989), in the phase of consolidation of the neoliberal formof economic regulation after the effects of the global financial and economic crisis(2012), and after the economic crisis that came as a consequence of the coronaviruspandemic (2022). The theoretical framework of the analysis relies on the theoryof normative-value dissonance (Lazić, 2011). We used summative scales of valueorientations, where the data allowed for such analyses, and in other cases, wecarried out simpler forms of descriptive analyses of individual items. The analysis ofempirical data was carried out separately for three datasets: In the first one the datahad been obtained through the research conducted in 1989 in BiH, then again in 2012in the Doboj region in BiH, and the third time in 2022 in the entity of Republicof Srpska. The significance of the research relies on examining the attitudes ofyoung people related to the economic role of the state during the establishment ofneoliberal capitalism, which has been insufficiently explored in domestic sociology.

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