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This paper identifies institutional obstacles that prevent improvement of quality of primary education in public schools in Serbia. Using microeconomic analysis author explains how the institutions generate negative incentives for employees in public schools. The author candidates Milton Friedman’s voucher model for financing primary education as a solution for this problem.
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The aim of this paper is to contextualize the Croatian students as subjects of social and political reality, taking into account the complexity of the historical and social conditions, as well as the specifications of the analyzed population. The first part contains a brief historical overview of the student movement framed by the hypothesis of the students as a social avanguard. The second part relates to the analysis of today’s students in Croatia on the basis of guidelines relevant to their (active) involvement in society and politics, while the final section examines how Croatian students belong to the category of intellectuals.
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This article discusses the concept of illiberal democracy primarily through work of Fareed Zakaria but also the tension between liberalism and democracy, two key components of modern democratic political systems through the works of contemporary political science authors. The author provides an overview how the concept of illiberal democracy was accepted among other theorists and democracy researchers. The paper argues that the relationship between democracy and liberalism was controversial from the beginning of linking those two segments. Contemporary political science literature, and the current political developments in democratic societies, suggests that neither political scientists nor politicians have yet devised a model that would eliminate the tension that arises from the existence of two different segments. Liberal democracies are political regimes in which compromise between liberal individualism and democratic collectivism is continually requested.
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Drawing on the classification of the roles of intellectuals, the author focuses on the issue to whom and for whom intellectuals are investing their voice. The article discusses several critical issues: firstly, the issue of a gap between theoretical knowledge and practical competences, secondly, the concept of public intellectual, thirdly, Chomsky s paradigm of the responsibility of intellectuals, and fourthly, the historical resonance of intellectuals in the neoliberal imagined society. The author opposes the views that the end of history and the end of ideology terminated the salient role of intellectuals and alternatively builds his argument on their manifold and multiple commitments in the spheres of civil society.The neoliberal order invites in this regard a number of challenges and responsibilities: an opportunity to open up new opportunities for the roles of intellectuals in the imposed market-managed and consequentially structurally changed society. Intellectuals at this very historical moment should turn from mere interpreters to legislators, as Zygmunt Bauman expects them to.
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Zlatoje Martinov - Ideologizovani konstrukt stvarnosti (Sanja Lazarević Radak, NA GRANICAMA ORIJENTA) Mirko Đorđević - Svedok srpske strane rata (Dobrica Ćosić - Bosanski rat)
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