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Univerzitet Crne Gore, Pomorski fakultetKotor , Kotor , Montenegro
Univerzitet Crne Gore, Pomorski fakultetKotor , Kotor , Montenegro
Univerzitet mediteran , Podgorica , Montenegro
Univerzitet mediteran , Podgorica , Montenegro
Identifying basic theoretical schemas (as images of real reality) with ideological doctrines (as subjective images of reality) has always been fraught with many dangers, and has often led to catastrophic consequences, sometimes visible to the naked eye. The post socialist transition is a good example of this claim. The subject of this paper is to explain the wide gap between the model of neoliberal rhetoric and the establishment of quasi-neoliberal reality, which has caused enormous damage to the peoples and state resources through alternative institutions in the countries in which it was applied. Unfortunately, monistic neoliberal instrumentalizations and institutional improvisations and operationalizations are still present in some transition countries, especially in the region of Southeast Europe (SEE). In theory, they manifest through apologetic elaborations, and in practice through various quasi-forms of socio-pathological type. The aim of this paper is a) to point out the need to reconcile the interests of government and business elites with the interests of society in the considered countries, viewed as the real functioning of various institutional types (formal, informal, and alternative), and b) to try to explain how total domination of politics over all areas of life and work has prevented real democratization and institutionalization, as well as social and economic development. The paper is based on two hypotheses: the first, the epicenter of all post-socialist transition problems was an institutional vacuum, which eventually turned into institutional nihilism, with highly unfavorable ownership structure as its key component, and the second, in the conditions of institutional nihilism (realized through alternative institutions), the consistent development strategy and successful economic policy cannot be created nor implemented. Using standard methods of economic science and social sciences, the research in this paper showed that government structures throughout the post- socialist period deliberately maintained and reproduced institutional nihilism and forced alternative institutions.
institutions, alternative institutions, neo-liberalism, transition, former Yugoslavian countries
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