Eugen Pusić was a professor specialized in social affairs and welfare.

Career

Pusić was born in Zagreb, where he studied at the Faculty of Law, receiving his doctorate in 1939. From 1955 to the mid 1960s, Pusić was a Lecturer and Extraordinary Professor in Zagreb’s Faculty of Law, as well as actively involved in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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, holding posts such as the Director of the Juraj Križanić Cabinet of Legal, Political and Social Sciences as well as Secretary and Member of the Presidency, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Outside of Croatia, Pusić also lectured at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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 (1963), University of California

University of California

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 at Berkeley (1969), University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, Philadelphia (1972) and was a Fellow at the Institute of Social Studies

Institute of Social Studies

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 and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 at Stanford.

Pusić served as an expert at the United Nations

United Nations

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 on several occasions, providing advice on social affairs and welfare

Welfare

Welfare refers to a broad discourse which may hold certain implications regarding the provision of a minimal level of wellbeing and social support for all citizens without the stigma of charity. This is termed "social solidarity"...

. Pusić won many awards for his contributions to the disciplines of social policy

Social policy

Social policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare. Thus, social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues...

 and organizational behavior.
The Institute of Social Studies

Institute of Social Studies

The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague is a unique, independent and international graduate school in the social sciences...

(ISS) in The Hague awarded its honorary doctorate to Eugen Pusić in 1962.

Works

Books

• Administration and Society (Co-Authors S. Ivanisevic, J. Kregar, Par. Pavic, I. Perko-Separovic, S. Petkovic, M. Ramljak, I. Šimonović) Zagreb, the Institute for Social Research, University of Zagreb, 1986, 399 pages.
• Order and Randomness in Cooperative Systems, Pittsburgh, International Studies Association, 1977, 200 pages.
• Social Welfare and Social Development, The Hague-Paris, Mouton, 1972, 251 pages
• Participation and the multidimensional development of complexity / Eugen Pusic / Vienna, Vienna Institute for Development, 1972. - 30 pages.
• Social welfare and social development / by Eugen Pusic / The Hague etc.: Mouton; ISS, 1972. - 251 pages.
• Planning the social services in developing countries: process and structures / Eugen Pusic / The Hague: Mouton; Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 1965. - 30 pages.
• Social welfare policy: first collection: contributions to theory / ed. by J.A. Ponsioen / 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1962. - 287 pages.
• Urban government for Zagreb, Yugoslavia / Eugen Pusic and Annmarie Hauck Walsh / New York: Praeger.

Articles

• The relationship of economic organizations and community-to manual for members of management bodies of the workers, Labor, Belgrade, 1958, pp. 36–71.
• Development and the present state administration study, Archives of legal and social science, 44/1957, no. 1, pp. I40-153. 3I.
• Citizens Management in the Social Services in Yugoslavia, Nordisk Administrativ Tidsskrift, 1957, pp. 132–145.
• Some problems of construction personnel in our public administration, the Bulletin of the organization administration, Zagreb, 1957, no. 11, pp. 437–446.
• The development of social management in FNRJ, the Institute for the social management, Zagreb, 1957.
• The Framework of Social Welfare Research - in: The Relation between Research, Planning and Social Welfare Policy, Geneva, 1957, pp. 77–85.
• The FPR Yugoslavia and her Social Services, Malaiskunta, Helsinki, 1956, no. 2, pp. 44–46.
• Social work and social workers, our reality, 10/1956, no. 3, pp. 312–317.
• Subject, goals and tasks of administrative science, our legality, 10/1956, no. 3, pp. 97–103.
• Centralization and decentralization, the new administration, 4 / 1956, no. 3, pp. 290–301.
• Some theories about centralization and decentralization, Proceedings of the Law Faculty in Zagreb, 6 / 1956, no. 1-2, pp. 34–43.
• Industrialisation and social work, Social Policy, 6 / 1956, no. 9, pp. 32–37.
• Differences in Attitude of Public Administration, Bestuurswetenschappen, September 1956, no. 5, pp. 319–343.
• Families and social services, our reality, 10/1956, no. 11-12, pp. 480–488
• Some Problems of Procedure in Public Administration, the Institute of Social Studies, 1955, pp. 1–43.
• Local administrations in Finland, our legality, 9 / 1955, no. 3, pp. 117–121. Social Welfare in Finland, Social Policy, 5 / 1955, no. 5, pp. 76–80.
• Organization of administration, our legality, 8 / 1954, no. 1, pp. I-8.
• Social Work - A Branch of Administration or a Method of Work - in: New Trends in European Social Work, Vienna, 1954, pp. 79–86.
• Functions of social workers, Social Policy, 4 / 1954, no. 11-l2, pp. 52–57.
• The Development of Social Services in FPR Yugoslavia, the UN, Social Division, Geneva, MTAA / 40 / 1954, 20 pp.
• Training of social workers in FNRJ, Social Policy, 3 / 1953, no. 5, pp. 33–35.
• State corporations in the U.S. administration, Views, l953, no. 7, pp. 491–497.
• Realism in our administration, the Croatian round, 5 / 1982, no. 1, pp. 15–17.
• Social worker as a profession, Social Policy, 2 / 1952, no. 10, pp. 573–578.
• Age and family insurance in the United States, Social policy, 1 / 1951, no. 7, pp. 263–258.
• Child protection in the United States, Social policy, l J 1951, no. 8-9, pp. 324–327.
• Scraps of American local government, the National States, l951, no. 6-7, pp. 52–55, no. 8, pp. 35–45.
• Subject doctrines of administration, the National States, l951, no. 11-12, pp. 83–89.
• Social care in the United States, Social care, 3 / 1950, no. 10-11, pp. 400–405.

Sources

• Umro akademik Eugen Pusić, otac Vesne Pusić

External links

• Profile at Institute of Social Studies
• Profile at Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts