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Voluntas (2014) 25:11921213 DOI 10.1007/s11266-014-9440-7
ORIGINAL PAPER
Health Care and Disability NGOs in Croatia: State Relations, Privatization, and Professionalismin an Emerging Field
Ann P. Dill
Published online: 27 February 2014 International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University 2014
Abstract Although nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in post-socialist countries have been under a microscope since their inception, their relations with the state are only beginning to come into focus and to be the subject of comparative and theoretical assessment. What these relationships mean to different stakeholders, whether they take trajectories similar to those in the West, and how they will be shaped by socialist legacies, are important questions to address before such relations are naturalized as the way things are. This paper examines NGO/state relations in the development of health care and disability services in Croatia, a nation newly admitted to membership in the European Union. The paper explores policy and institutional legacies, health care privatization, and relations with health professionals as forces affecting the nancing, structure, and experience of relationships between NGOs and the post-socialist state.
Rsum Dans les pays postsocialistes, bien que les organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) aient t examines au microscope depuis leurs dbuts, leurs relations avec ltat commencent peine susciter de lintrt et faire lobjet dune valuation comparative et thorique. La signication de ces relations pour les diffrentes parties prenantes, le fait quelles prennent ou non une trajectoire similaire celles de lOuest, ainsi que leur modelage par lhritage socialiste sont des questions importantes quil faut considrer avant que ces relations soient natural-ises comme lordre normal des choses . Cet article examine les relations entre ONG et tat dans le cadre du dveloppement des soins de sant et des services aux personnes handicapes en Croatie, une nation rcemment devenue membre de
Submitted for consideration as part of special issue, Theoretical Variations for Voluntary Sector Organizing: Topping off Old Bottles with New Wine.
A. P. Dill (&)
Department of Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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