Eugen Pusić

Levels of Social and Economic Development as Limits to Welfare Policy

This paper sets forth a model for classifying organizations and applies it to comparison of welfare policy in two countries.

Territorial and Functional Administration in Yugoslavia

Two models of administration are described: territorial administration, marked by centralized patterns of decision with a high degree of dependence on outside centers of political power; and functional administration, characterized by decisions based on technical and professional norms. Indicators were derived for each of the models, and data collected from the communes and service institutions in the Zagreb area were used to form profiles of the prevalent administrative processes in these organizations. The empirical analysis is an exploratory test of the models presented and confirms the hypothesis that decision-making processes in the communes continue to approximate a centralized, hierarchical, authority structure.

Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality

concepts are powerful in part because they cut across individual, group, and organizational evels of analysis. Although analyses at different levels remain largely separate in the book, thinking about connections between organizational and individual identities raises interesting questions. For example, the primary benefits of individual identification espoused in part 3 occur when individuals derive similar identities from the organization. If the content of an organizations identity includes valuing diversity, can individuals then maintain unique individual identities while identifying with the organization? If so, can these unique individual identities be considered an advantageous organizational resource, just as organizational identity is considered in part 2? Such questions illustrate both the potential of identity concepts to cut across levels of analysis and the wealth of ideas about identity that run throughout the books conversations. For anyone contemplating identity issues in organizations, this book is sure to be thought provoking.

Rasprava na Okruglom stolu: Hrvatska kao socijalna država

U posljednjem broju „Revije za socijalnu politiku“ objavili smo referate priređene za Okrugli stol „Hrvatska kao socijalna država - zadanosti i usmjerenja“ koji je u organizaciji Centra za industrijsku demokraciju Saveza samostalnih sindikata Hrvatske održan 28. i 29. studenoga 1996. U ovom broju objavljujemo raspravu na Okruglom stolu te izlaganje akademika Eugena Pusica. Naime, od svih uvodnih izlaganja izdvojili smo upravo izlaganje akademika Pusica stoga sto ono sadrži neka aktualna razmisljanja o socijalnoj državi koja nisu u potpunosti sadržana u njegovom vec objavljenom prilogu u nasem casopisu. Osim toga, na izlaganje akademika Pusica nadovezali su se neki sudionici u samoj raspravi.

Socijalna politika kao moralni problem

Socijalna politika temelji se na moralnim vrijednostima solidarnosti i uzajamnosti. Tijekom drustvenog razvoja mijenja se znacenje tih vrijednosti i njihovo institucionalno izražavanje, ali se njihovo djelovanje u drustvu može ocekivati i u buducnosti.

Social Planning, Social Policy, and Political Change

Social planning is considered in the context of the political system, which is understood to be a way of allocating opportunities for interest satisfaction. This paper explains how political systems change so that social planning may be located on the continuum of history. According to this model, government evolves as simple communities begin to differentiate internally as a result of more frequent and cooperative contact with their environments. Social policy is oriented toward the neutralization of some of the social, hierarchical effects of this differentiation. In this sense, planning is an act of power. By its nature, however, it is not at home in a power system. Rather, it is the first step toward integrating systems by control of information. In the future, an economy of abundance may allow societies planned in this way to become self-regulating instead of being regulated by force by the state.

Differentiation of Social Services During Rapid Social Change

developing, Western Non-Western, capitalist socialist) but should span these differences and address a problem common to all. As it is impossible to include all existing countries in one research project, both research-probtem and sa.m,p.le have to be chosen in such a way that both questions and answers will have significance beyond the borders of those countries where the research was actually carried o~ut.

Review Articles : I. Ends, Means and Social Welfare

ET me say at the outset that this is a reL freshingly different book.* * It is also an exciting book, especially for the nonAmerican reader, because it attempts to identify commonalities in social welfare services in different cultures and then analyzes in some detail the dysfunctions of the values on which the edifice of American social work is built, an edifice subject to much controversy in other parts of the world. American social work, as an ideology and as a practical activity, since it began crossing the Oceans has found almost fanatical acceptance on one side and almost total rejection on the other. To try to understand the emotional load attached to this controversy it is necessary to go back to the essentials of motivation and orientation behind American social work, and this is precisely what Professor Howard’s book does. It is not a theoretical disquisition

The Role of the Social Services in Different Stages of National Development Planning in Europe

for Europe. Editorial Note: The major documents from the European Regional Symposium held at the invitation of the German National Committee of the ICSW in Stuttgart in September, 1963 are printed in this issue. These include: the keynote speech, the reports of eight Commissions and the concluding speech of synthesis. The Commission reports were presented at a plenary session but were not formally acted on. Complete proceedings of the Symposium are also being published in French and can be secured from the ICSW Regional Office in Paris.

Mobilizing Resources for Social Needs Statement by the Pre-Conference Working Party

T HE statement which follows has been prepared ~ by a specially constituted Working Party, meeting in Japan in advance of the Conference and consisting of representatives from fourteen countries and three international organizations. Its purpose is to serve as a guide to the Conference discussions, bearing in mind the great diversity of experience of the delegates and the widely differing circumstances of the activities they represent. The Working Party has endeavoured to clarify the ideas on which the Conference program has been based but without limiting the range of the discussions which, it is hoped, will reflect the rich content and variety of social work. The statement, therefore, seeks to indicate the dimension of the problems and