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Features of Croatian Public Policies

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This chapter belongs to cross-sectoral studies of public policies, with Croatia as a case example. Being one of the first works of this kind focused on Croatia, the purpose of the chapter is exploratory—to give initial description of main similarities and differences between Croatian public policies. The chapter develops a qualitative analysis of policy studies of different Croatian sectors to capture some general characteristics of policy-making. As a theoretical framework, taxonomy of European public policies, concepts of policy accounts and policy design are used. A sample of policies belonging to different policy areas present in European countries was analyzed by principles of qualitative content analysis. The chapter describes overall major features of Croatian public policies followed by comparative cross-sectoral analysis.

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    Ana Petek

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    Zdravko Petak

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    Kristijan Kotarski

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Petek, A. (2019). Features of Croatian Public Policies. In: Petak, Z., Kotarski, K. (eds) Policy-Making at the European Periphery. New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73582-5_16

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