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Zizmond, Helena. "National Minority Rights : A Caste Study of Croatia and the National Minority Croatian Serbs." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1917.
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The Serbs are a national group which has been disliked by the Croats for hundreds of years. Even before Croatia became a part of Yugoslavia, the country wanted its independence. However, before and after the break up of Yugoslavia, there was a strong nationalism in the country which led to hatred towards the Serbs and the Serb minorities in Croatia. Studies have shown that minorities often are disfavoured by the majority decisions. This leads to a disadvantageous position for the minorities in the relation to the majority. The problem is how a state should compensate these groups for their disadvantageous position to be able to ensure justice and equality for all citizens within the country.
The aim of this thesis is to compare Croatia’s formal national minority rights with the actual national minority rights of the Serbs and to see whether they coincide with each other. The research questions are:
• What formal minority rights do Croatian Serbs have in Croatia?
• What minority rights do Croatian Serbs have in reality?
The method used in this study is the qualitative text analysis.
The conclusion of this thesis is that Croatia has a positive attitude towards minority rights and the Serb minority, as Croatia has allocated group-differentiated rights to its national minorities. The Croatian view upon national minority rights coincides to a large extent with Will Kymlicka´s theory. Furthermore, the formal rights and the virtual rights regarding education, language, culture and proportional representation coincides to a great extent if not precisely.
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Newman, John Paul. "The Croatian God Mars: The impact of the war on the male wartime generation in Croatia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494382.
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Bisht, Deepti. "Structure and geomorphology, southeast Dinarides, Croatia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708060.
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Lightfoot, Emma. "Bioarchaeological analysis of archaeological populations from Croatia : a comparison of isotopic and archaeological results." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608975.
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Rice, Eric A. "Language politics in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FRice.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Europe and Eurasia))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Yost, David S. Second Reader: Moran, Daniel J. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 21, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-66). Also available in print.
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Maršić, Tomislav. "Controlling the party or controlling the media? : how intra-party dynamics moderated, and reinforced, particularism in Croatia, 2000-2014." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:834082e1-abef-420f-9842-e8185626e9f5.
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This thesis explores the shape, the dynamics, and the main reasons for media capture and collusion in Croatia since the second transition in 2000. Using principal-agent theory to refer to the basic relation-ship between politicians, media and citizens, I intend to explain why politicians make use of particularism - behaviour aiming at the limitation of horizontal accountability - to force the media into cooperation with politicians (media capture) or to engage in an illicit, mutually agreed deal (collusion). Located in the literatures on democratization, party research and media studies, I aim to connect these fields in arguing that intra-party dynamics such as party leaders' rootedness, contestation and the institutionalization of rules play an important role in incentivizing executive politicians to capture or collude with media outlets. The empirical outcome of the study showing drastic failures of horizontal accountability contradicts dominant narratives of Croatia's high level of democratic consolidation between 2000 and 2014 and therefore challenges the suitability of indicators primarily designed to capture the institutionalization of institutions rather than the institutionalization of particularism. Croatia is a particularly appropriate case to study in this context since none of the traditional incentives such as Europeanization, inter-party competition, a strong civil society or economic modernization can fully explain shifts in the way politicians limit or reinforce horizontal accountability of the media. In order to address this puzzle I adopt a two-pronged research strategy based on both qualitative and quantitative elements in order to reliably and validly measure the shape and development of media capture and collusion.
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Clewing, Konrad. "Staatlichkeit und nationale Identitätsbildung : Dalmatien in Vormärz und Revolution /." München : Oldenbourg, 2001. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c6m9-aa.
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Baric, Marijana. "Undeclared work in Croatia : a social exchange perspective." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13681/.
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Across the world, studies of undeclared work have largely focused on measurements of its size rather than unearthing the nature and motives of those engaged in the undeclared economy, which is required if undeclared work is to be tackled. The aim of this thesis is to use social exchange theory (SET) to develop a theoretically informed framework for understanding participation in undeclared work. This framework views an understanding of both vertical (government-citizen) and horizontal (amongst citizens) relations as crucial when explaining participation in undeclared work. When analysing the former, social contract and elements of trust and justice are considered, whereas the latter considers the level of tolerance of undeclared work and influence of social norms. The aim of this thesis, therefore, is to use a study of Croatia to evaluate not only the validity of current theorisations of undeclared work, but also the validity of SET as a conceptual framework to explain participation in undeclared work. In doing so, this thesis provides not only the first contemporary study of undeclared work in Croatia, but also the first known attempt to use SET to understand this phenomenon. To achieve this, 300 face-to-face interviews have been conducted in the city of Split, along with 20 in-depth follow-up interviews in 2012. The findings reveal not only the multifarious character of undeclared work and diverse motives underpinning the decision to participate in this realm, but also how SET provides a useful framework for explaining such engagement. The level of trust in the state and social norms are shown to explain to a significant extent engagement in the undeclared economy. This thesis then unpacks how citizens conceptualise the social contract with the state, as well as the complex formation of social norms surrounding undeclared activities. Having established the applicability and usefulness of social exchange theory as an underpinning framework for understanding undeclared work, the wider policy implications are then drawn out. This reveals that in populations where tax morale is low and the social contract weak, there is a need to focus upon indirect policy measures that seek to improve the vertical relations, as well as change the social norms embedded in the horizontal relations that currently normalise undeclared work.
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Bartulin, Nevenko School of History UNSW. "The ideology of nation and race: the Croatian Ustasha regime and its policies toward minorities in the independent state of Croatia, 1941-1945." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/28336.
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This thesis examines the central place of racial theories in the nationalist ideology of the Croatian Ustasha movement and regime, and how these theories functioned as the chief motive in shaping Ustasha policies toward the minorities of the Nazi-backed Independent State of Croatia (known by its Croatian initials as the NDH), namely, Serbs, Jews, Roma and Bosnian Muslims, during the years 1941 to 1945. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part deals with historical background, concentrating on the history of Croatian national movements from the 1830s to the 1930s. The second part covers the period between the founding of the Ustasha movement in 1930 and the creation of the NDH in 1941. The third part examines the period of Ustasha power from 1941 to 1945. Through the above chronological division, this thesis traces the evolution of Ustasha ideas on nation and race, placing them within the historical context of processes of Croatian national integration. Although the Ustashe were brought to power by Nazi Germany, their ideology emerged less as an imitation of German National Socialism and more as an extremist reaction to the supranational and expansionist nationalist ideologies of Yugoslavism and Greater Serbianism. In contrast to the prevailing historiographical view that has either ignored or downplayed the significance of racial theori! es on Ustasha policies toward the minorities of the NDH, this thesis highlights the marked influence of the question of 'race' on Ustasha attitudes toward the 'problem' of minorities, and on the wider question of Croatian national identity. This thesis examines the Ustashe by focusing on the historical interplay between nationalism and racism, which dominated so much of the modern political life of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The fusion of nationalism and racism was not unique to Ustasha ideology, but the evolution and nature of Ustasha racism was. Ustasha racial ideas were therefore the product of both specific Croatian and wider European historical trends. This examination of the historical intersection between nationalism and racism in the case of the Ustashe will, i hope, broaden our understanding of twentieth-century nation-state formation, and state treatment of minorities, in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
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Baillie, Britt Alexandra. "The wounded church : war, destruction and reconstruction of Vukovar's religious heritage." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609351.
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Kekez, Lovorka. "ICCAT, NGOs and Bluefin tuna special focus on Croatia." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988796740/04.
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Hayball, Harry Jack. "Serbia and the Serbian rebellion in Croatia (1990-1991)." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12301/.
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It is often suggested that the Serbian rebellion in Croatia in 1990-91 was orchestrated by Serbia, and, in particular, by its president Slobodan Milošević personally. Despite the popularity of this interpretation, however, the literature on the break-up of Yugoslavia is yet to offer a focused study of Serbia's role in the descent into conflict in Croatia. Many sources that have become available in recent years remain unused. Through a critical and cautious use of such sources, including extensive interviews with participants in the conflict and contemporary documentation, this thesis aims to fill this gap in the literature and to update our knowledge of this important aspect of the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia. Honing in on Belgrade's relationships with Serb political and military/paramilitary leaders in Croatia, as well as Serbia's direct involvement in and attitude towards the road to war, it concludes that the existing focus on Milošević's Serbia has been misplaced. Serbia's stance towards Croatia was hardline, but Belgrade's influence over the Croatian Serbs was limited and its direct involvement in events minimal. Milošević did not have a grand plan to orchestrate violence in Croatia, and the leaders of the Serbian rebellion in Croatia were fundamentally independent and autonomous actors, who, far from being Milošević's puppets, were often in conflict with him. The interaction between Croat and Serb nationalists within Croatia provides a strong explanation for the descent into conflict there, including its rapid militarisation. A partial exception is provided by the region of Eastern Slavonia, where factors such as the late onset of the rebellion made the region much more amenable to Belgrade's influence, though principally after the war had already begun. The findings of this thesis point to a need for re-assessment of the role of Serbia in the break-up of Yugoslavia.
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Merdita, Hana. "Entry Strategy for the European Union: Republic of Croatia." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125133.
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More than twenty years after the independence declaration, Republic of Croatia is facing the second biggest step in its history- entry to the European Union. European Union, the world's trade leader, has recognized Croatia as a reliable partner in the future affairs. Croatia shall become a 28th member of the integration on July 1st, 2013. Croatia has experienced many obstacles on the path to the European Union, trying to align its system with the EU's comprehensive legislation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to provide an extensive analysis of the Croatian path to the European Union and to apply the solutions on the further development not only of Croatia but also the remaining candidate countries of the European Union.
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Skoblar, Magdalena. "'Sermons in stone' : eleventh-century figural sculpture from Croatia." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1567/.
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This thesis examines eleventh-century figural sculptures from Croatia by focusing on their iconography and potential symbolical significance. It consists of a detailed analysis of seventeen well-preserved carvings and an accompanying catalogue with six additional pieces, which are too damaged and fragmentary to be analyzed. These figural sculptures have been studied together on only two occasions, more than fifty years ago, and these publications focused on the manner of their carving and their dating. This stylistic approach has dominated the Croatian scholarship, and the investigation of the meaning of figural sculptures has been mostly sporadic and unsystematic. As such, it has created a vacuum in which the sculptures exist as catalogue entries in neat stylistic categories. In contrast, this thesis examines the figural sculptures by applying an iconographic analysis. This methodological approach investigates the visual sources for the schemes depicted, followed by the exploration of their iconographic significance, at the basis of which are the exegetical writings of early Christian and early medieval theologians. Thus, this thesis examines the figural sculptures in their contexts (architectural, religious and social) the results of which provide a deeper understanding of and more information about the culture and society which had produced them. Following from this, the chapters are grouped according to the current amount of information about their original architectural setting. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the sculptures from the churches of Holy Dominica (reconstructed) and St Lawrence (still extant) at Zadar, which provide an excellent architectural context. Chapter 3 deals with three different sites where the churches have been preserved only in their foundations (St Mary's, Biskupija; SS Peter and Moses, Solin; St Michael's, Kolo?ep). Finally, Chapter 4 analyzes the sculptures existing or discovered outside their original architectural setting.
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Dalbello, Marija. "Print Culture in Croatia: The Canon and the Borderlands." Hrvatsko bibliotekarstvo drustvo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105616.
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This is an introduction for the thematic issue, "Print Culture in Croatia," at: http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/datoteke/162This theoretical paper explores the theme of periphery and the borderlands and outlines the program for a new and transnational approach to the study of book culture in Croatia. Starting with a problem of fragmentation of Central European book histories, the essay argues how this could be turned into an opportunity to apply comprehensive and comparative approaches, using cultural area and comparing isomorphism of documentary practices rather than following the commonly used linguistic criteria (the national vernacular). European identity has been central to the Croatian construction of identity, and this can provide a broader framework for resolving the problem of how to construct a national history that acknowledges its status as boundary culture. If the European periphery is to claim its own cultural discourse, this will have to be through the controversial, ideological, and difficult task of cultural revision in which it will have to ex-territorialize itself and abandon a dream in which the national vernacular assumes a major function in language and society. This will not be possible without understanding the borderlands and an acceptance of its unique role in which dualities need to be accepted as an epistemology for boundary histories to assume significance within the dominant discourses of culture. In the dualities and multiplicities of the borderlands there arise counter-hegemonic interpretations, and the periphery can be validated by revealing the patterns of the center, connection to other traditions, and its own uniqueness at the same time. The thematic program for the study of Croatian print culture as boundary cultures is outlined as well.
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Baker, Catherine. "Popular music and narratives of identity in Croatia since 1991." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1416337/.
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This thesis employs historical, literary and anthropological methods to show how narratives of identity have been expressed in Croatia since 1991 (when Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia) through popular music and through talking about popular music. Since the beginning of the war in Croatia (1991-95) when the state media stimulated the production of popular music conveying appropriate narratives of national identity, Croatian popular music has been a site for the articulation of explicit national narratives of identity. The practice has continued into the present day, reflecting political and social change in Croatia (e.g. the growth of the war veterans lobby and protests against the Hague Tribunal). The cultural boundaries of the nation were also subject to contestation and challenge according to symbolic value judgements of what was and was not considered 'Croatian'. Various aspects of popular music (e.g. instruments, vocal styles) were constructed as symbols of inclusion and exclusion in this discourse, and several attempts were made by professional interest groups to promote certain genres as a basis for a national style of popular music. The nationalisation of cultural space also entailed the marginalisation of music/musicians from other ex-Yugoslav republics (especially Serbia) with ethno-nationally ambiguous connotations. An examination of what have become transnational cultural flows shows the continued interdependence of the ex-Yugoslav states and markets. The thesis combines analysis of Croatian press sources and song lyrics themselves with ethnographic material drawn from 35 weeks of fieldwork in Zagreb and Slavonia. Interviews and participant observation of musical events are used to analyse the importance of music in narrating individual as well as collective identity.
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Ragazzi, Francesco. "When governments say "diaspora" : transnational practices of citizenship, nationalism and sovereignty in Croatia and former Yugoslavia." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010IEPP0025.
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Un certain nombre d’acteurs non-étatiques sont en compétition pour le monopole de la représentation de « leur » diaspora : associations de migrants, organisations de minorités, lobbies etc. De plus en plus de gouvernements des pays d’origine sont, eux aussi, engagés dans cette compétition pour définir et gouverner « leurs » populations à l’étranger. Mais comment expliquer des pratiques transnationales de souveraineté visant des populations situées précisément en dehors des frontières territoriales qui légitiment cette souveraineté ? La thèse développée ici est que la notion de « diaspora » doit être comprise comme un « speech act », un énoncé performatif qui permet de justifier des pratiques politiques transnationales qui ne le pourraient être autrement. L’étude empirique de la thèse porte sur l’Ex-Yougoslavie et la Croatie contemporaine. La première partie de la thèse aborde l’émergence des différentes catégories de populations Croates à l’étranger, et l’évolution différentiée de pratiques de pouvoir transnationales pour les gouverner. Dans la seconde partie, la thèse explore comment, dans les années 1990, la fusion des pratiques discursives et bureaucratiques dans la catégorie de « diaspora » a permis de justifier 1) la mobilisation des ressources politiques, économiques et humanitaires des groupes diasporiques durant le conflit de 1991-1995, 2) la recomposition de l’équilibre ethnique Serbe/Croate au travers de la d’une définition post-territoriale de la citoyenneté, ainsi que des tactiques électorales lies au vote et à la représentation de la « diaspora » au parlement 3) l’annexion déterritorialisée de parties de la Bosnie-Herzégovine dans les années post-DaytonA wide range of non-state actors are in competition to monopolize the discourse of diaspora: migrant association leaders, minority organisations, lobbies etc. But the efficiency of the diaspora discourse is also increasingly harnessed by governments. Yet what does it mean, for governments, to formulate claims of sovereignty over populations who reside precisely outside the very borders that legitimate them? The argument developed in this dissertation is that “diaspora” is as a ‘speech act’, a performative utterance which enables transnational political practices that could otherwise not be justified in a normative structure of world politics dominated by the imperatives of territorial sovereignty. The empirical analysis of the dissertation focuses on former Yugoslavia and contemporary Croatia. A first part of the dissertation focuses on the heterogeneous categorizations of Croatian populations abroad and the evolution of differentiated transnational practices of power to reach out to thee populations. In the second part of the thesis, the dissertation explores how, in the nineties, the merging of bureaucratic categories and state practices into the category of ‘diaspora’ has been instrumental in justifying 1) the homeland’s tapping into the diasporic groups’ political, economic and humanitarian resources for the 1991-1995 war 2) the reshuffling of the ethnic Croatian/Serb composition of the citizenry through diaspora citizenship, and the tactical electoral strategies through diaspora voting rights and representation in the parliament and 3) the de facto deterritorial annexation of parts of neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Pavlaković, Vjeran. "Our Spaniards : Croatian communists, fascists, and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10350.
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Doncevic, Stefanija Tholdy. "Work, psychosocial work environment and wellbeing among district nurses in the county of Stockholm, Sweden and in the county of Zagreb, Croatia /." Stockholm, 1999. http://diss.kib.ki.se/1999/91-628-3892-X/.
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Price, Lisa S. "Making rape a war crime : the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its treatment of sexual violence." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312977.
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Tasovac, Masa. "An examination of the intercultural outcome of a policy of educational division based on spoken language : the case of educational policy in Vukovar, Croatia." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/757.
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A four-year war in Croatia in the early nineties left Eastern Slavonia and the Vukovar region struggling with the consequences of inter-ethnic conflict and human suffering. Poorly addressed post-ethnic reconciliation issues resulted in many challenges in everyday living for the people of Vukovar, especially so with the segregation of the public educational system based on language and ethnicity. This research explored the outcomes of the policy in Vukovar to divide the student body based on the language they spoke.
The literature review examined issues of inter-ethnic conflict, post-war reconciliation, and the process of grieving and transition in order to define how these processes affect people involved in public schooling in Vukovar today. I have examined literature in intercultural sensitivity, intercultural conflict, reconciliation, cultural marginality, and identity formation.
I compiled data through in-depth interviews with five specialists in the field of public educational system in Vukovar. They included a journalist and author, a teacher, administrators, and parents.
I found the presence of slow but consistent increase in readiness for the process of rejoining schools in Vukovar. This convergence in attitudes of the majority and the minority groups regarding their public school education might be the best indicator that Vukovar is shifting from the position of grieving to a place more open to the new solutions and agreements. However, one should not forget that bringing students together is not a key to reconciliation. Even though it appears that parents and teachers have motivation and good incentives to accomplish the process of reuniting, the students themselves lack the understanding of the importance of the same.
I hope that this study will provide insight into the state of affairs in Vukovar's educational system today and may provide insight into the ways of managing the larger issues of reintegration and reconciliation between the diverse cultural communities.
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Simic, Vladimir. "An Assessment of Monetary Policy in Croatia with Reference to Euroisation." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492277.
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This thesis investigates recent monetary policy in Croatia and assesses some of the results achieved. The Croatian monetary authorities have been remarkably successful in achieving and maintaining low inflation, having outperformed most other transition economies. Hence on this basis the conduct of monetary policy in Croatia should be assessed as successful. However, the relatively low confidence in the domestic currency suggests that this 'success' should be interpreted with caution. Although monetary policy in most transition economies has begun to converge on that practised in developed market economies, there are some distinctive features in transition economies which may make the conduct of monetary policy quite different. Unofficial euroisation stands out as the most important candidate. Croatia is the most euroised economy in Central and Eastern Europe. This unique feature complicates the conduct of monetary policy and leads to the monetary authorities / / targeting the exchange rate. It is in this context that an investigation of the consequences of euroisation for monetary policy is undertaken in this thesis. This investigation suggests that euroisation constrains the conduct of monetary policy and the degrees of freedom for autonomous monetary policy are low. This is due to the identified currency mismatches in the economy which imply that there are high risks in letting the exchange rate float, even threatening the possibility of a fully fledged financial crisis. It is also argued that a stable demand for domestic money function is not to be expected and an empirical investigation of both the demand for narrow and broad money in Croatia largely supports. this hypothesis. Another important consequence of euroisation is the absence of strong channels of the monetary policy transmission mechanism. An empirical investigation of the exchange rate, interest rate and credit channel in Croatia suggests that they are very weak or nonexistent, confirming that the effects of monetary policy in the euroised environment may be different from what is usually expected. This thesis has identified some of the risks that the monetary authorities in the euroised environment are faced with. Given these risks and the finding that the impact of monetary policy in Croatia is weak, the official introduction of the euro seems a prudent step forward. The arguments developed in this thesis not only apply to the Croatian case, but should be taken as relevant to any economy with a high degree of euroisation.
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Stojcic, Nebojsa. "Competitiveness, restructuring and firm behaviour in transition : the case Of Croatia." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2011. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/1894/.
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The ability of nations to grow and to provide their citizens with a better standard of living depends on the competitiveness of their firms. During the transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy firms had to face the challenging task of restructuring in order to become more competitive. It was expected that through changes in their behaviour they would be able to replace once dominant price-driven competitive profiles with quality-based profiles which can generate higher value added and can lead to higher rates of growth. The aim of this thesis is to investigate competitiveness of firms and industries in Central and East European Countries (CEECs) in general and Croatia in particular. We argue that the competitiveness of firms and industries is a dynamic process closely related to their restructuring activities, characteristics and environment. With that in mind we apply dynamic panel methodology and dynamic shift-and-share analysis to two large firm and industry level datasets for the period 2000-2007, the most recent year for which data was available to us. We compare the behaviour of Croatian firms with that of their rivals from several advanced CEECs, assess the competitive profile of Croatian exporters and examine the competitiveness of Croatian industries on the EU15 market. Our findings indicate that in an advanced stage of transition the behaviour of firms in CEECs and Croatia was typical of price competitive firms with improvements in labour productivity and cost efficiency being their most important forms of restructuring. Furthermore, we identified several agglomeration externalities and government policy measures such as free trade zones as factors which can facilitate the ability of Croatian firms to compete on international markets. We have also demonstrated that Croatian trade with EU15 is mainly of the vertical intra-industry type. Finally, stronger capital and innovation intensity in combination with higher pressure of imports have positive effects on the relative quality of exports from Croatian industries to the EU15 market. Based on these findings we have developed a set of recommendations for Croatian policy makers and managers which we hope can stimulate the innovativeness of firms and industries and increase their ability to compete through quality.
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Pavasovic, Trost Tamara. "Dealing with the Past: History and Identity in Serbia and Croatia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10422.
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This project analyzes the influence of history and myths in the construction of ethnic identity narratives by intellectuals and elites, as well as the appropriation and negotiation of these identities among contemporary youth in Serbia and Croatia. By analyzing the multiple meanings assigned to identity at both the elite and individual level, I argue that none of the present theoretical models allows us to build a complete understanding of how ethnic identity actually works on the ground. This project moves away from treating ethnic identity as a given, instead examining how it is constructed and reconstructed at the “top” level, how it is lived and negotiated on the “bottom,” and how these understandings change over time. I first examine the identity narratives and dominant myths articulated by elites, leaders, religious institutions and intellectuals during Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the late 1980s and 1990s, utilizing discourse analysis of official history textbooks, key works of intellectuals, and rhetoric of political elites. I argue that identity is constantly in the process of construction, reconstruction and fine-tuning; attention should thus be paid to the content of dominant myths that weave together various narratives, and to strategies of myth articulation. Second, I examine the extent to which these narratives have persisted among contemporary youth. Relying on two years of ethnographic research, including 160 in-depth interviews, 1200 surveys, focus groups and participant observation in Serbia and Croatia, I find that “lived” identity narratives are contextual, frequently contradictory, and have important generational, class, gender, and regional cleavages. This research has broad implications for theories of ethnic identity construction, in addition to calling for a reconsideration of the methodology commonly used in studying ethnic identity.Sociology
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Antonopoulos, Eleftherios. "The effects of EU CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20612.
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The main purpose of this study was to establish whether and how EU pre-accession assistance in the form of Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) and Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) acts as an instigator of institutional change (Europeanisation) via its influence on administrative capacity. The three major objectives were: to contribute to the growing literature on institution-building (Europeanisation) in the Western Balkans; to define and operationalise the term 'administrative capacity' in the context of Enlargement and pre-accession; and to conduct in-depth case study research on how CARDS and IPA affect administrative capacity in Croatia and how they interact with other factors influencing administrative capacity. The method of achieving this is to disaggregate information on administrative capacity into the component elements of institutional structures, financial and human resources, and administrative systems and procedur es. The dissertation argues that EU pre-accession assistance exerts a positive role on learning processes but its effects on administrative capacity tend to be temporary or particular to 'islands of excellence' in the public sector and rarely become commonplace. With regard to structures, especially relating to management and partnership, mainly positive effects of assistance were identified, whereas there was only a slightly positive influence on human and financial resources. However, the number of positive effects of interventions on systems and tools was balanced by instances where no effects had been produced. Constraints identified comprised the late start of the programmes, the legacy of socialism, as well as war and the ensuing international isolation. Other obstacles included the lack of political will for reform, lack of coordination, non-existent human resources strategies, non-transparent procedures and poor implementation results. Further setbacks were the tokenistic level of funding, and the weak coordination of EU interventions with the enlargement strategy and the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP). There is also a risk of regression in the capacities of the public sector after EU accession.
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Burrai, V. "Towards a symmetrical minority citizenship : group equality in Croatia 1990-2007." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1355101/.
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This thesis explains the process of institutional equalisation of national groups which took place in Croatia between 1990 and 2007. Two readings are prevalent in the study of minority regimes. The first, more prevalent among scholars of ethnic conflict, sees the adoption of minority rights regimes as the result of political struggles, expressed in ad hoc improvement of the status of specific national groups. This approach focuses on the agency of rebellious national groups and sometimes kin-states. The second, preferred by international organisations scholarship, sees the establishment of minority regimes after 1990 as the product of the conditionality imposed by international organisations accompanied by the diffusion of international norms of fair treatment, which results in a general systems rights for the national minorities. The thesis’ institutionalist approach reconciles both readings because it recognises that the historical context conferred agency to a number of international and domestic actors interacting with the Croatian governments. Additionally it creates space for unintended consequences of institutional reforms, placing the institutional equalisation of Croatia’s national groups among them. The evolution of the Croatian rules of inclusion of national groups is explained by three arguments. Firstly, I argue that the manipulation of the list of national minorities responded to international incentives, more than to the power or characteristics of specific national groups. Secondly, I show that incremental and unintentional changes, more than the diffusion of a norm regarding group equality, were responsible for the creation of an equal system of minority rights. Thirdly, the equalisation of national groups provided previously unrecognised national groups with unprecedented access to resources and institutions, shaping their means of participation in public life and increasing their salience at state-level and local-level politics. Finally, the empirical findings show that national groups’ recognition triggered adaptive strategies among national groups at the local level. In the case of long established national groups, these were aimed to preserve the group’s standing relative to the newcomers, while, in the case of the newly recognised groups adaptive strategies sought to establish a political identity.
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Faivre, Sanja. "Landforms and tectonics of the Velebit mountain rance (Outer Dinarides, Croatia)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000CLF20005.
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Cette étude s'inscrit dans le cadre de la géomorphologie structurale. Le but en est d'apporter une explication à la répartition des formes du relief par rapport aux nouvelles conceptions tectoniques. Pour examiner ce lien, les déformations et les contraintes ont été calculées à partir des dolines des crêtes. L'intérêt de la montagne de Velebit tient à sa grande densité en formes karstiques et à sa dynamique tectonique récente. Ce travail a permis de dégager une nouvelle méthodologie en la matière. 2 méthodes géologiques, la méthode de centre et celle de projection, ont été adaptées aux conditions géomorphologiques. Les contraintes et les déformations ont été calculées à partir de la distribution spatiale des dolines, pour détecter les influences tectoniques récentes, et à partir de la morphologie des crêtes, pour distinguer les différents types d'influences tectoniques récentes et anciennes. Un intérêt particulier a été porté sur les variations spatiales des paramètres mesurés, lesquels sont examinés à travers la méthode des trajectoires. Les résultats acquis dans les 1ères parties ont été utilisés pour l'élaboration de plusieurs modèles numériques. La 1ère serie de modèles utilise les résultats d'analyse morphologique alors que la 2e consiste en la simulation cinématique. Le but en est d'apporter des éléments explicatifs sur les causes principales des distributions de contraintes et de déformations, obtenues précédemment. La comparaison de résultats, issus de méthodes différentes et d'analyses à différentes échelles, a permis d'établir en termes quantitatifs, le lien étroit qui existe entre les deux formes de relief étudiées et la tectonique. Enfin, cette étude met en exergue l'importance de la géomorphologie dans l'étude de la géodynamique et celle de la tectonique dans l'étude des formes du relief
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Brusić, Zdenko. "Hellenistic and Roman relief pottery in Liburnia (Nort-East Adriatic, Croatia) /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37118370n.
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Donahoe, John J. "Croatian civil-military reform and its impact on NATO membership." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FDonahoe.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Daniel J. Moran. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-92). Also available online.
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Ćosić, Ivana. "Introduction of standardised assessment in Croatia : the matura and its effects on teachers and schools." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708599.
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Uzelac, Gordana. "Perceptions of the nation : a sociological perspective on the case of Croatia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2280/.
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This thesis examines the processes of social change that characterise the /re/formation of the nation. It argues that such processes can only be identified through the examination of the interplay between social structure, culture and agency in a specific period of time. Through the exploration of the basic assumptions of Social Realist Theory, a methodological framework is constructed for the analysis of the morphogenesis of the nation. The basic assumptions of the developed framework are tested on the case of Croatia. A historical analysis explores the processes of structural change and the formation and competition of corporate agents from the beginning of the nineteenth until the end of the twentieth century. The processes of cultural change that occurred in the same period of time are investigated through a content analysis of the writings of the dominant Croatian nationalist ideologists, which identifies the ways in which the nation in general and the Croatian nation in particular were defined. The interaction between social structure and culture in the process of nation /re/formation is explored through a content analysis of secondary school history textbooks. This analysis looks at the ways dominant ideas of nations and nationalism were incorporated into the education system from the 1880s until the 1990s and, through the medium of textbooks, were designed to influence the attitudes of primary agents. In order to investigate the interplay between structure and culture, on the one side, and primary agents, on the other, a survey was undertaken in early 2000 on a sample of the population of Zagreb. It examined the ways these agents perceive the nation in general, the Croatian nation in particular, national symbols and national enemies. These analyses show that the issues of defining the nation and explaining the process of its formation are necessarily inter-linked. The study concludes that the nation emerges with the emergence of social processes - the formation of political community, the politicisation (nationalisation) of culture, the mobilisation of a population around specific nationalist ideologies, and the population's acceptance of certain aspects of these ideologies.
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Muzek, Dina. "News dissemination on leading media organisations in Croatia: Covid-19 vaccination affair." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45692.
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During the Covid-19 vaccination in Croatia, there were inconsistencies and irregularities with the surplus vaccine and its recipients. Media coverage of the affair was extensive. The details were broadcasted in traditional media and social media. Like many other spheres of social life, the media system has progressed under the baton of technological and communication changes. The destabilisation of traditionally conducted communication required the adaptation and reshaping of all its actors. This study argues that we live in a hybrid media system, where traditional media and social media are in symbiosis (Chadwick, 2013) and are interconnected. The study aims to investigate what makes online content viral and discuss findings in a hybrid media context. The study conducts a content analysis, examining articles posted on media organisation web pages and their Facebook pages covering the vaccination affair. The variables in the analysis are based on the virality concept (taken from the field of marketing).
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Fernandez, Nichole Marie. "Visualizing the nation : national identity, tourism advertising, and nation branding in Croatia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25678.
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in many daily forms of media we see the nation being represented by or alongside images. These images of the nation inform the way we see both others and ourselves. This thesis attempts to understand the way the nation is visualized, a topic that has been largely overlooked by theorists of nationalism. The visualization of the nation is explored by researching two national tourism campaigns in Croatia. Croatia was chosen as a case study in which to examine the visualization of the nation due to its recent accession into the European Union alongside the country’s economic dependence on tourism and its current attempts at rebranding. In order to achieve the aims of this research I ask two main research questions: 1. How is the nation visualized in Croatia through tourism advertising and by whom?, 2. How is this visualization received by members of the nation? These questions were answered by combining three methodological steps which consisted of a visual analysis of the images of the campaigns, interviewing those involved in creating the campaigns and other members of the design or tourism community, and finally photo elicitation interviews with members of the Croatian public. This research found that Croatia is often peripheral within these tourism campaigns. The nation is represented passively with the main focus of the advertisements being the experience of tourism. Croatia is merely the backdrop that these tourism activities are being advertised through. This passive representation of Croatia is a consequence of an industry that is focused on increasing tourism numbers and that relies heavily on marketing data. The representation of Croatia is not the aim of these tourism campaigns. The passive image of the nation is additionally the consequence of Croatia’s uneasy relationship with presenting something as national. National pride is often equated with violent forms of nationalism and therefore visual representations of the nation are often eliminated from the positive marketing images of the tourism campaigns. Both members of the nation and the industry downplay the importance of tourism advertising arguing that these images are solely for the tourist and therefore they are largely insignificant. However, I use du Gay’s (1997) concept of the ‘circuit of culture’ to argue that tourism advertising is not just influenced by national identity but rather it is also influencing national identity. These tourism campaigns contribute to the construction of national identity. Therefore, this passive image of the nation is not just for tourists, it is part of a circuit of identity construction that reaches far beyond the target audience. Overall, these tourism images are simplistic and reductive imitations of the nation while national identity is complex, inconsistent, and often contradictory. Branding and design often aims to condense identity into easily recognizable and quickly communicated images making any attempt to brand the nation inherently lacking. While this reductive identity is useful when branding a company or product, when applied to the nation ethical questions emerge about who has the right to construct the nation’s image. I argue that this new phenomenon of commercialized branding that is now a responsibility of the nation is evidence of the changing role of the nation from a modern construction to a postmodern brander. This opens up questions about the democratic nature of these tourism images and consequences of nation branding efforts that continue to represent the nation in reductive and passive terms.
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Adeli, Lisa M. "From Jasenovac to Yugoslavism: Ethnic persecution in Croatia during World War II." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290017.
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During World War II, the Croatian ultra-nationalist Ustasa persecuted nearly two million Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia, a state that included present-day Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Ustasa-run Jasenovac concentration camp became a lasting symbol of ethnic persecution. Political analysts today often cite this genocide as proof that ethnic violence and fragmentation within the region are inevitable. However, an equally important reality is that within just four years, Ustasa excesses had provoked a widespread popular reaction against the violence and against the national exclusivity that inspired it. Although many people in Croatia and Bosnia initially celebrated the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1941 and supported the declaration of Croatian independence, the Ustasa's brutal treatment of minority groups quickly alienated much of the population. Opposition to ethnic persecution took many forms, including assisting people targeted by the government, hiding victims or helping them to escape from the country, aiding prisoners of the regime, and, occasionally, publicly protesting discriminatory measures. Within the concentration camps as well, prisoners of different ethnic backgrounds came together in food sharing and newsgathering cooperatives in a common effort to survive. This rejection of ethnic violence served to discredit the extreme Croatian nationalism represented by the Ustasa--and also its Serbian counterpart represented by the Cetniks. The result was a resurgence of Yugoslavism, a renewed emphasis on the interdependence of Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and others. Opposition to ethnic persecution also fueled the expansion of the Partisan resistance and shaped the character of that movement, causing its leaders to develop a program of ethnic equality and a federally organized postwar government. The ideology of Yugoslav unity transformed the Partisans into a popular movement, allowing the Partisans to triumph over both the Serbian domination of the prewar Yugoslav kingdom and the fratricidal violence of the Independent State of Croatia. Thus, people's reaction against atrocities in Croatia during World War II had important consequences for the entire region. The issues of ethnic violence, conflicting concepts of nationalism, and resistance are interrelated and, when considered together, give a fuller picture of developments in Yugoslav history.
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Licul, Mauricio. "Analysis of the renewable energy sources perspectives in the state of Croatia." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/10082.
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2012/2013The whole Europe is dependent on the import of energy in various forms . Given that Europe has no longer its raw materials in large quantities and had to turn to new technologies in order to produce the required amount of energy needed. There is the similar situation also in Croatia , which has recently become a full member of the European Union . This paper attempts to critically analyze the current situation in the energy sector . The thesis is oriented on the identification of the problems , barriers and reasons regarding the usage of certain types of technology , and why the implementation of this technologies are not differently organized and developed in the Republic of Croatia. The thasis also analyzes the objectives of the energy development strategy , the legal framework of implementation of renewable energy sources , the problem faced by renewables in their implementation and other segments that are associated with sustainable energy ig general. In the thesis also some themes regarding subsidizing energy production are analysed , therefore the thesis also tried to evoke the auto balance between subsidizing conventional forms of energy production and minor state subsidies for new renewable forms of energy . After each chapter the conclusions are drawn from various sub-segments , Thru the questionnaire different direct opinion and conclusions from society was analysed considering those same energy topics. The survey was conducted on a total of 617 respondents from seven different cities on the Croatian territory . The idea was to compare the results obtained from the survey with logically conclusions and argumentation that emerged from the analysis of the documents and statistical data from the previous practice in the energy sector in Croatia . The paper accented suggestions and ideas for distributed implementations of the smale scale sources with most emphasis on the fotovoltaic tecnology . Proposal for smaller sources is justified and argumented in the thesis by technical and economic elements , and the thesis tried to explain and argument the viability of this proposal. In the circles that follow the development of the energy sector in Croatia , some facts about the barriers and possible improvements in the restructure of the renewable implementation plan is generally familiar. In this study it is mostly accented the fact that a small distributed renewable sources are ideal for the current energy situation in Croatia and therefore should be taken more into consideration for futher development of the renewable sector. Small sources are interesting for several reasons, among others , because they were easily accessible to ordinary households , and therefore it encourages employment at the local level . From a technical perspective , it is easiest to implement in existing power system and do not affect negatively the distribution network like large solution of from the renewable energy element portfolio. The paper discusses also the financing and promoting of renewable energy sources and on their promotion by the state . There are known conclusions and around predominantly already known general knowledge and practical problems around the implementation of certain renewable energy technologies and all these conclusions are compared with respondents' opinion on various issues . This work led to thinking that the problems regarding the implementation of renewable energy sources are present . For each of these problems are known causes and consequences , however the intention was to compare the perceptions and the actual amount of knowledge that society has on the actual elements and variables that actually affect the development of renewable energy sources in the Republic of Croatia . But also the intention was to see how certain social and economic elements affecting the same perception and how the respondents actually know the real energy picture in the state of Croatia .
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Bourgogne, Renee Danielle. "The Croatian Community of Southeastern Louisiana: Immigration, Assimilation and the Retention of Ethnic Identity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1904.
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This work is a study of a community of Croatian immigrants to Southeast Louisiana in the twentieth century. Drawn from a multidisciplinary approach that included spatial analysis of settlement patterns, quantitative analysis of seafood industry data, the records of voluntary associations, and guided by the oral histories of men and women of Croatia who immigrated to Louisiana, this work reveals a community that has managed to maintain close ties despite its distribution both in urban New Orleans and rural coastal Louisiana through links created by and supportive of the state’s seafood and restaurant industries. The study points out how the custom of returning to Croatia for marriage and the retention of property in Croatia helped the group maintain links with its national and cultural origins in ways not always seen with other ethnic groups in America, pointing out the range of the immigrant experience in the United States.
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Behaim, Jelena. "Architectural Landscape at the Periphery of Carolingian Empire. Croatian Historical Territory and Marca Hispanica." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673109.
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Fa exactament 1220 anys, el dia 25 de desembre de 800, el vell continent va rebre el primer hereu formal del món antic, el nou unificador d'Europa: Carlemany. Aquest fet va transformar el poderós regne dels francs en l'Imperi Carolingi que en el moment de la seva creació cobriria els territoris des de l'àrea sud dels Pirineus fins al riu Elba a l'actual Alemanya Oriental, baixant cap al sud a través de Baviera i Caríntia, fins a la costa oriental de l'Adriàtic i a Ístria. El primer i l'últim dels territoris esmentats han motivat aquesta dissertació. Encara que més de 1.300 quilòmetres es van interposar entre ells, en aquest moment de la història eren veïns del mateix governant, i com a tals van ser testimonis de l'expansió del territori franc en etapes cronològiques gairebé simultànies. Als peus dels Pirineus, la frontera baixava finalment fins al riu Llobregat, al costat de la Barcino romana, mentre que pel costat oriental abastava la península d'Ístria.
La investigació presenta una anàlisi comparativa de paisatges i de models arquitectònics en aquests territoris perifèrics de l'Imperi Carolingi: Ístria i Marca Hispànica. No obstant això, per complementar-la i oferir una visió ampliada del context tant dels processos històrics com arquitectònics, els territoris del Ducatus Croatiae i del Regnum Asturorum s'han inclòs en la discussió. Per tant, dues parts essencials formen la columna vertebral d'aquesta anàlisi: les zones geogràfiques del sud-oest i sud-est de l'Imperi, així com els territoris que es troben fora d'ell. S’han pres com a models exemples de l'arquitectura alt-medieval datats en el període de l'expansió carolíngia (finals de segle VIII i durant el segle IX) d'Ístria i del Ducatus Croatiae, que han estat confrontats amb exemples dels comtats catalans i del Regnum Asturorum mitjançant un enfocament sincrònic.
L'objectiu principal és posar les bases i proporcionar els paràmetres per a noves reflexions sobre els models de funcionament del paisatge urbà i rural de l'alta edat mitjana a través de diversos problemes particulars. L'especial atenció s’ha portat sobre l'impacte mutu i al nivell de la seva intensitat entre el concepte expansionista carolingi de renovatio imperii i els substrats històrics locals (bizantí i visigot) que han determinat el paisatge històric i arquitectònic durant els segles anteriors a l'arribada dels francs. Els complexos processos d'interacció i impregnació han donat com a resultat la supervivència i el canvi, així com la desaparició i aparició de noves formes i motius.Hace exactamente 1220 años, el día 25 de diciembre de 800, el viejo continente recibió el primer heredero formal del mundo antiguo, el nuevo unificador de Europa: Carlomagno. Ese hecho transformó el poderoso reino de los francos en el Imperio Carolingio que en el momento de su creación cubriría los territorios desde el área sur de los Pirineos hasta el río Elba en la actual Alemania Oriental, bajando hacia el sur a través de Baviera y Carintia, hasta la costa oriental del Adriático e Istria. El primero y el último de los territorios mencionados han motivado esta disertación. Aunque más de 1.300 kilómetros se interpusieron entre ellos, en ese momento de la historia eran vecinos del mismo gobernante, y como tales fueron testigos de la expansión del territorio franco en etapas cronológicas casi simultáneas. A los pies de los Pirineos, la frontera descendía finalmente hasta el río Llobregat, junto a la Barcino romana, mientras que por el lado oriental abarcaba la península de Istria. La investigación presenta un análisis comparativo de paisajes y de modelos arquitectónicos en estos territorios periféricos del Imperio Carolingio: Istria y Marca Hispánica. Sin embargo, para complementarla y ofrecer una visión ampliada del contexto tanto de los procesos históricos como arquitectónicos, los territorios del Ducatus Croatiae y del Regnum Asturorum se han incluido en la discusión. Por lo tanto, dos partes esenciales forman la columna vertebral de este análisis: las zonas geográficas del suroeste y sureste del Imperio, así como los territorios que se encuentran fuera de él. Se han tomado como modelos, ejemplos de la arquitectura altomedieval fechados en el período de la expansión carolingia (finales del siglo VIII y durante el siglo IX) de Istria y del Ducatus Croatiae, que han sido confrontados con ejemplos de los condados catalanes y del Regnum Asturorum mediante un enfoque sincrónico. El objetivo principal es sentar las bases y proporcionar los parámetros para nuevas reflexiones sobre los modelos de funcionamiento del paisaje urbano y rural de la Alta Edad Media a través de varios problemas particulares. Se ha prestado especial atención al impacto mutuo y al nivel de su intensidad entre el concepto expansionista carolingio de renovatio imperii y los sustratos históricos locales (bizantino y visigodo) que han determinado el paisaje histórico y arquitectónico durante los siglos anteriores a la llegada de los francos. Los complejos procesos de interacción e impregnación han dado como resultado la supervivencia y el cambio, así como la desaparición y aparición de nuevas formas y motivos.
Exactly 1220 years ago, on Christmas Day December 25, 800, the old continent got the first formal heir of the ancient world, the new unifier of Europe - Charlemagne. This transformed the powerful Frankish kingdom into the Empire that at the time of its inception would cover the area from the south side of the Pyrenees to the River Elba in present-day East Germany, and south across Bavaria and Carinthia to the eastern Adriatic coast and Istria. The first and the last of the mentioned territories motivated the following dissertation. Although more than 1,300 kilometres stood between them, at that time in history, they were the neighbours of the same ruler, and as such witnessed the expansion of the Frankish territory in almost simultaneous chronological stages. At the foot of the Pyrenees, the border eventually descended to the river Llobregat, next to the Roman Barcino, while on the eastern side it encompassed the Istrian peninsula. The research presents a comparative analysis of architectural models on these peripheral territories of the Carolingian Empire: Istria and Marca Hispanica. However, in order to complement this research and offer an expanded view of the context of both the historical and the architectural processes, the territories of the Principality of Croatia (Ducatus Croatiae) and the Kingdom of Asturias (Regnum Asturorum) have been included in the discussion. Therefore, two essential parts form the backbone of this comparative analysis - the geographical zones of the southwest and the southeast of the Empire, as well as the territories just outside of it. Examples of the early medieval architecture dated to the period of the Carolingian expansion (end of the 8th and during the 9th century) from Istria and the Principality of Croatia were taken as models which were confronted with Catalan and Asturian examples through a synchronous approach. The main objective of this dissertation was to lay the foundations and provide the parameters for further reflections on the models of functioning of the early medieval urban and rural landscape through several particular problems. Special attention was given to the mutual impact and the level of its intensity between the Carolingian expansionistic concept of renovatio imperii and the local historical substrates (Byzantine and Visigothic) which have shaped the landscape, as well as the society, during the centuries prior to the Frankish campaigns.
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Lindstrom, Nicole Renee. "Rethinking sovereignty: The domestic politics of Europeanization in Europe's southeastern periphery (Croatia, Slovenia)." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Marinković, Ivana. "Democratic consolidation and the impact of EU political conditionality : The Case of Croatia." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-14359.
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This thesis aims at assessing democratic consolidation in Croatia within the context of the EU accession negotiations in the past decade. It looks specifically at whether and to what extent the EU enlargement policies and political conditionality approach have been an effective tool in promoting democratic change and consolidation in Croatia, particularly in the following areas: cooperation with the ICTY, the fight against corruption, the consolidation of an independent judiciary, and fundamental rights, with special attention to freedom of expression. Thus, Croatia is referred to as an empirical case, but discussion can have wider appliance to other EU non-member states in Southeastern Europe and identify some of the advantages and shortcomings of the EU approach. Moreover, the country‟s specific features, such as the war of independence as well as Tudjman‟s personality and style of governance, have delayed taking up most of the democratic reforms and thus, have slowed down democratic change and consolidation for entire decade. In addition, the governments‟ hesitation to introduce necessary democratic reforms, due to domestic pressures of various interest groups has for a long time presented an important obstacle to any substantial changes and consolidation, as well as to Croatia‟s EU membership. Nevertheless, Croatia nowadays has achieved a stable and consolidated democracy, to which EU enlargement policies and its political conditionality have contributed significantly. Although there are still many problems to address, especially in terms of fight against corruption and war crimes issues, there is no direct threat from democratic breakdown or the erosion of democracy in the country.
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Yeomans, Rory. "Ideology, propaganda and mass culture in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446869/.
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This thesis examines the ideology of the Ustasha Movement which ruled the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945, considering the way in which it used popular culture to consolidate its rule and legitimise its policies. It begins with a survey of historiographical and literary treatments of the Ustashas as a starting point to explore the main themes of the Ustasha ideology (ustastvo). These were ideas it had in common with other fascist and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe. However, this thesis argues that while the Ustasha Movement drew its ideology from a number of different sources including Yugoslavism, fascism and National Sociahsm, its main source of ideological inspiration came from ideas deeply rooted in traditional Croatian nationalism. The fact that Ustasha ideology was at least partly grounded in popular prejudices and national myths means that the extent of support the Ustashas enjoyed from the masses and their relationship with them needs to be reconsidered. Often the Ustashas have been portrayed as an extreme political phenomenon with little following. This thesis contends that the Ustasha Movement had not only more support among the population than has hitherto been suggested, but that the Ustashas, far from being a marginal group of outsiders, represented simply the most extreme expression of a mainstream nationalist consensus. To be successful, propaganda needs to reflect existing social values. In the Ustashas' case, their ideology also reflected prevaihng aesthetic values. Although the Ustashas' propaganda was grounded in a utilitarian appropriation of national myths, ceremonies and traditions, their radical, modernising ideas and apocalyptic rhetoric gained them the support of leading artists in Croatia too. The desire to create an exclusivist Croatian culture was not, therefore, restricted to the Ustashas, but was a widely-held national goal.
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Zambelli, Natasa. "East of Eden : a poststructuralist analysis of Croatia's identity in the context of EU accession." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6419.
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Since the early 1990s Croatia has defined membership of the European Union as one of its primary goals. However, the immediate post-war period and the difficult transition to democracy left Croatia in relative isolation from Western European states and its aim of joining the European Union seemed unattainable and distant. Croatia’s involvement in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and President Tuđman’s politics proved to be great obstacles to its further democratisation and development. The parliamentary and presidential elections in the year 2000 and the defeat of Tuđman’s party offered a unique opportunity to change the direction of Croatian politics and to move closer to achieving the goal of EU membership. This thesis addresses changes in Croatia’s identity and it does so through the analysis of discourses surrounding Croatia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and its changing attitudes towards the protection of minority rights during the year 2000. Both cases fall under the Copenhagen Criteria of Accession whose implementation was crucial for Croatia’s moving closer towards EU membership. They are also closely linked to Croatia’s identity and are rooted in the civilisational discourse that juxtaposes ‘the West’/ EU and ‘the East’/ the Balkans as both geographical and civilisational spaces. The two case studies are both concerned with questions of sovereignty, justice, victims of the Homeland War and the role of Serbia in Croatia’s recent past and in its future. Serbia features as Croatia’s radical other and is discursively constructed as an embodiment of the Balkans civilisation. The study of cooperation with the ICTY and of discourses surrounding minority protection analyses the links between different civilisational spaces that Croatia navigates and their implications to the reconstruction of discourses central to Croatian identity. Despite different subject material both case studies reveal the centrality of the Serbian other for the Croatian identity and the need to redefine that relationship without undermining Croatia’s identity as a Western country and attempts to differentiate itself from the Balkans.
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Piculjan, Leda. "Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of the upper pleistocene faunal assemblage from Hijenska Pecina, Croatia." Master's thesis, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/6021.
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Master Erasmus Mundus em Quaternário e Pré-HistóriaHijenska pećina, an Upper Pleistocene cave site, is located in the Plovunija quarry, north of Buje in Istria, Croatia. A detailed taxonomic, metric and taphonomic analysis of the faunal assemblage is presented in this work. Material consists of about 453 bones, bone fragments and teeth. A big portion of the remains belong to cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) and the thesis will try to answer the question if Hijena cave was a hyena den or a natural trap as suggested in earlier works.
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Cann, Sarah. "The politics of ethnic identity in everyday life at the local level in Croatia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29051.
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The starting point in this thesis is a reconsideration of the genre of literature on the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that seeks to explain the causes of conflicts. The point made is that this search for causality not only results in accounts that are ‘ethnographically thin’, but also constructing an account that focuses on only one movement in the everyday lives of persons in Croatia. Applying a concept of the everyday that allows for moments of conflict – as opposed to considering conflict as something separate – the argument this thesis makes is that there is the presence of an apparently repeated movement to the way objects of shared interest divide and come together. By employing concept of ‘scale’ [Strathern 1991] this thesis draws out ethnographically the movement surrounding objects of shared interest, through an account of the work that persons do on their family houses, as well as their work on documents, and gravestones. The point this ethnographic account makes is that these objects of shared interest gain this appearance of movement as a result of the debates that surround them. It also draws out how these objects of shared interest are not passive objects, but how they take on the role of actants [Latour 1997] by shaping the form that these debates take. It is only after having drawn out this movement that this thesis then turns to consider the concept of narodnost [ethnicity]. The argument made here is that there is a similar movement to the debates surrounding narodnost as there are to the movement of the debates that surround inherited family houses and documents. This thesis then compares the movement surrounding to the debates surrounding anthropological objects of shared interest, and the movement to the debates surrounding objects of interest for persons in Rijeka, Croatia.
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Dominkovic, Katarina Laura Crumley Carole L. "Traditional agriculture and rural living in Croatia compatible with the new common agricultural policy? /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,822.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.
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Dreshaj, Merita. "Study of paleodiet from the context of the rotunde church in Bribirska Glavica, Croatia." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/24484.
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This work focuses on the study of paleodiet of selected burials and fauna from Bribirska Glavica, Croatia via stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen. Carbon stable isotopes in bone collagen can distinguish between two types of plants (C3 and C4) whilst nitrogen isotopic composition gives an estimation of the trophic levels and the amount of protein consumed. The results are compared to several factors such as the burial context, health, time period, social status, trauma, sex and age. An attempt was made to understand the impact of these factors on stable isotopic values and, hence, the choice of diet, contextualising the results within known historical and archaeological data. This research is compared to the study done on the area of Ravni Kotari, geographical area where Bribirska Glavica is situated, extending the paleo-dietary data range to Late Medieval period in the hinterland of Dalmatia; RESUMO: (Estudo da dieta paleo no context da “rotunda” igreja em Bribirska Glavica, Croácia)
O presente trabalho foca-se no estudo em paleodieta, realizado em ossos humanos e animais selecionados de um sitio arqueológico em Bribirska Glavica (Croácia), através do estudo dos seus isótopos estáveis de carbono e nitrogénio. Os isótopos estáveis de carbono presentes no colagénio dos ossos permite distinguir entre 2 tipos de plantas (C3 e C4) ao passo que a composição isotópica de nitrogénio fornece uma estimativa dos níveis tróficos e na quantidade de proteína consumida. Os resultados têm em consideração diversos fatores tais como o próprio contexto funerário, a saúde dos indivíduos, o período de tempo, o estatuto social, trauma, sexo e idade. Uma tentativa para a compreensão do impacto destes fatores nos valores dos isótopos estáveis e a escolha da própria dieta foi realizada, contextualizando desta forma os resultados obtidos com dados históricos e arqueológicos já conhecidos. Os resultados obtidos neste trabalho de investigação são ainda comparados com um estudo prévio realizado na área de Ravni Kotari, área geográfica onde se situa Bribirska Glavica, estendendo desta forma o intervalo de dados em paleodieta até ao período medieval tardio na região da Dalmácia.
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Rudelyte, Kotryna, and Maja Bertilsson. "The Impact of EU Accession on Trade : The case of Poland, Romania and Croatia." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49042.
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One of the main reasons to why a membership in the European Union (EU) is so attractive for prospect countries are the free trade agreements the membership entails. The free trade agreements mean that the whole EU opens up as one big market, where tariffs and tolls are no longer an obstacle to trade for its members. Therefore, this thesis analyses whether EU membership actually yields a positive effect on member’s trade. The time series analysis is based on a three-country sample consisting of Poland, Romania, and Croatia during the time period from 2001 to 2018. By applying multiple and Chow’s breakpoint tests, and country-wise and a pooled cross-section analysis model, we examine if the accession to EU impacts each country’s trade volumes. The results indicate that becoming a member of the European Union does not necessarily have a significant effect on Poland’s, Romania’s, or Croatia’s trade even if it is positive.
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Kacarska, Simonida. "National minority policies in the EU accession process : the cases of Croatia and Macedonia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6300/.
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This thesis examines the role of EU in shaping national minority policies in Macedonia and Croatia since the launching of the first forms of EU conditionality in relation to the Western Balkans in the late 1990s. Research on EU conditionality has developed foremost in the context of the Eastern enlargement, largely neglecting the former Yugoslav countries. This dissertation contributes to filling this gap by studying the dynamic interactions between the EU and the national level in relation to national minority policies. The thesis utilizes primary document analysis and open-ended interviews in a combination of comparative case study method and process tracing. It tracks and explains the construction, application and implementation of EU conditionality in relation to minority policies between 1997 and 2012. The study employs before and after approach in relation to 2004/2005 when Croatia and Macedonia applied and became official candidates for EU accession. As national minority policies are not part of the EU acquis, the research studies how the EU institutions, especially the EU commission have used international instruments (such as the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities) and national legislative provisions as elements of EU conditionality. In addition, the research examines in depth the policy of employment of minorities in the administration as a novel segment of EU conditionality in the two case studies. The analysis demonstrates the lack of consistency of this mechanism, its development and change over time as well as its potential for polarisation. Primarily, the thesis fills an existing gap in literature concerning the study of the role of conditionality in national minority policies in Croatia and Macedonia. On a conceptual level, this research sheds light on dynamic relationship between Europeanisation by conditionality and democratic consolidation in the conditions of post-communism.
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KATURIC, IVANA. "Informal housing in the framework of housing and welfare systems in post-communist croatia." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/133497.
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The object of this thesis is informal construction in South-East European countries during the post-communist transition, in particular the analysis of the metropolitan area of the city of Split. We will approach the issue of informal construction as a complex path-dependent phenomenon that cannot be separated from the social conditions, which generated it, nor from the institutional context in which it is embedded.
In this thesis, we first discuss the transition of the welfare model in post-communist countries and highlight the specific characteristics of Croatia. Attention is paid to the different ways in which the diverse housing systems, as part of wider welfare systems, influence the phenomena of informal construction. The analysis is conducted at the city level in order to define informal construction in relation to the housing provision.
Secondly, we address the problem of the definition of informal construction by looking at the following variable: ownership over land, the relation to the land use regulation, legality of the built object and its expansion, the current use of the object, permanency of the residence and as the last feature, whether it is built through the self promotion. A typology of informal construction is built and is tested in a survey of different neighborhood of the city of Split.
Thirdly, a survey is carried out on the different typologies of informal construction. The focus of the survey is on the ways in which different social groups in the society benefit or are damaged by the phenomenon of informal construction and on the different possibilities and paths to the legalization process. An additional outcome is a refinement of the typology for further research on the topic of informal construction.
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Mracevich, Milovan. "The motives of the Croatian-Canadian pro-Communist returnees of 1947-48." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28182.
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During 1947 and 1948, over a thousand Croatian-Canadians went to Yugoslavia as part of a larger return movement that was organized by the Yugoslav-Canadian pro-Communist umbrella organization, the Council of Canadian South Slavs. The returnees were strongly encouraged to return by the Council and by its related Croatian-Canadian pro-Communist organization and newspaper, and left Canada aboard the Yugoslav vessel Radnik in a series of voyages. Many of the returnees had been in Canada for some twenty years, and quit jobs, sold houses and business assets, and uprooted their families in order to return.
This thesis places the Croatian-Canadian pro-Communist return movement within the context of return migration from North America by examining to what extent the returnees' decision to go back to Yugoslavia is explainable in terms of circumstances specific to themselves, and to what extent it reveals forces that were felt by other ethnic groups of the period. This study draws mainly upon interviews with participants in the return movement and upon the Croatian-Canadian pro-Communist newspaper Novosti in concluding that the returnees were motivated by a powerful and complex combination of forces: "traditional" return migration pressures; radicalizing and anti-assimilationist influences that were typical during the 1930s among the followers of the ethnic pro-Communist movement in Canada; Yugoslav wartime and postwar conditions that encouraged and allowed the returnees to go back; and a highly-organized and skillfully-propagandized return movement that both capitalized upon and created a desire for return among the Croatian-Canadian pro-Communists.Arts, Faculty of
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Mihaljevic, Maja. "Student attainment, non-completion and time to complete in higher education : the case of Croatia." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522123.
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