Liberalne vrednosti vladajućih elita i slom sistema

Abstract

The matter of this paper is an empirical analysis of some social attitudes of power elites in Serbia and Croatia before Yugoslav state disintegration that are connect with liberalism as value orientation. The liberalism observed as a social value (a system of ideas) which affirm group autonomy and private ownership and initiative, freedoms of political organizing and public speaking and equality in low. The data says that there are many respondents in any individual questions that except the liberal attitudes. The conclusion is that in the power elites before Yugoslav state disintegration was strong liberal and modernization potential. Elites as social groups with big social power, opposite to expectations, cannot made either modernization of political and economical system or to stop Yugoslav state disintegration. General reason is that elites tends to make control over totality of social relations and they have no interests to make changes neither in social system nor in social relations.