Проблем државног, политичког и административног капацитета: „Анатомија“ Србије као слабе државе
Problem of State, Policy and Administrative Capacity: “Anatomy” of the Serbian State Weaknesses

Summary/Abstract: This paper starts from the fact that Serbia after the war in former Yugoslavia found itself in an extremely complex situation, which was marked by the need for a functional transformation of the Serbian state, as the primary democratic actors, in the direction of strengthening the capacity to mobilize society and securing economic support for public goals, to allocate resources for consistently formulated and publicly validated strategies (or policies), and to effectively engage administrative (bureaucratic) resources. In accordance with this, the first part of the paper analyzing the modern understanding of state and state, policy and administrative capacities, with special emphasis on the distinction between weak and strong states. The paper concludes by noting that, despite the fact that the transformation of the Serbian state started, it remains a weak country with an extremely unfavorable internal and external sets of components that define its overall position and ability to interact with society, to increase state, policy and administrative capacities and to direct economic development.

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