Ottaway and Maltz

False start toward Democracy:  Tudjman regime

New form of Titoism
 How so?
 

 Centralization, media control

Unlike Titoism – nationalism!
Condemned “Yugo-unitarians”
 
The Good News:

Tudjman dies 1999 during parliamentary elections

Opposition parties work together

Run in two coalitions

Presidential elections 2000

Pres. Stipe Mesic from the Croatian People’s Party (HNS)

PM Irica Racan Social Democratic Party (post-Communists)

 
Steps new Croatian Government has taken to appease international community:
 
 
 

Domestic problems:
Still sluggish economy
(although 4% per year 2000-2003)