Changes in Value Orientations Among the Economic Elite During the Postsocialist Transformation. Economic and Political Liberalism in Serbia
Changes in Value Orientations Among the Economic Elite During the Postsocialist Transformation. Economic and Political Liberalism in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamics of change in the value orientations of political and economic liberalism shown by members of the economic elite in Serbia during the period of postsocialist transformation. The paper’s second objective is to identify specific factors determining the potential lines of differentiation in degrees of attachment that members of the elite groups held to these values when the neoliberal form of capitalist regulation moved into crisis. The theoretical-hypothetical framework of the analysis given here draws on the theory of value-normative dissonance, while the methodological approach relies on a comparison of empirical data obtained at three points in time—before the breakdown of the socialist system (1989); during the period of entrenchment of capitalist relations (2003) and at the time when neo-liberal capitalist regulation went into crisis at both global and local levels (2012).

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