Economic structure of society and continuity of power in Serbia

• Main Author: Vuković Slobodan V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2000-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: property; economy; constitutive institutions; privatization; continuity of power
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2000/0085-63200001003V.pdf

Topic of the article is continuity of socialist power with previous communist in Serbia, analyzed mostly in its economic aspect. Starting point in the analysis is that one of basic constitutive institution of former social system is social/state property, and economy founded on it is completely remaining in spite of abandoning of communist heritage. Development of private sector could not have important influence on economic structure, for privatization of social property have been hindered by political means. That provide evidence that in the last years in Serbia in the economic realm, nothing is changed except remarkable fall of national income. For type of socio-economic mediating springs out from the type of property, all social institution and instruments of command economy are unchanged in the former forms. That means that prevails basic economic structure of former socialist system. Its main trait is that political power supreme organizer and arbitar in economic transaction. Thus, it is evident that after introduction of one type of political pluralism Serbian economy still have command character.