Politički proces i policy zajednice u jugoslavenskoj migracijskoj politici
Political Processes and Policy Communities in Yugoslav Migration Policy

Summary/Abstract: Policy communities play an important role in Yugoslav politics but their influence in a specific instance remains contingent upon the willingness of political generalists to listen. Community of specialists on worker migration abroad developed as the migration assumed significant proportions. This community defined the nature of the problem on the intellectual basis of the 1965 economic reform and the manner i which generalist elites subsequently addressed the issue. As Croatian nationalists and Tito linked migration to the larger political crisis of the early 1970s, migration entrepreneurs injected these proposals into subsequent policy. In this sense, policy making in Yugoslavia takes place by garbage can« processes, as well as by "rational" problem-solving. As an issues becomes a recurring agenda item, policy communities become fragmented an lose their vigor. The immediate problems have been clearly addressed in the policy security driven measures have become a set of entitlement programs in a variety of bureaucracies throughout the government. But the issue of migration, itself, has withered away as generalist turned to new problems, funding for research has declined, and the activities of the community have been routinized and ritualized. Advocates of migration-as-economic reform remain as active as funding will allow: in order to find a more complete hearing, they have migrated to a now-burgeoing policy community on private sector small business.

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