Eugen Pusić

Eugen Pusić ( born July 1, 1916 in Zagreb, † 20 September 2010) was a Yugoslav jurist, professor and politician.

Biography

After school he studied law at the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1939 with a doctorate. After the Second World War, he initially began a career in the state administration and was 1945-1946 Director for Social Affairs of the People's Committee of Zagreb and then 1946-1955 Secretary (Minister ) of Health and Social Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.

He then began his career as a high school teacher and was initially 1955 Lecturer and then Associate Professor, before he accepted the 1961 as Professor of Law at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at the University of Zagreb. His teaching he held until his retirement in 1986.

In addition, he was several times the United Nations Expert on Social Affairs and 1964-1965 advisor to the then UN Secretary-General U Thant Sithu. For many years he was engaged in the International Council of Social Welfare and initially from 1956 to 1960 Member of the Executive Committee and subsequently Vice President, before he eventually was president of that organization from 1964 to 1968. He was also from 1976 to 1980 President of the Association of Public Administration and Governance of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY)

During his many years of teaching, he was also repeatedly visiting professor and taught as such in 1963 at the University of Manchester, 1969 at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970 at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1972 at the University of Chicago. In addition, he was a visiting researcher ( Fellow ) at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS ) in The Hague, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and in 1981 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars working.

For his services he was first associate member in 1975 and finally in 1983 a full member of the former Yugoslav and today the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In addition, he was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Pusić authored 35 books and more than 1300 scientific papers and articles, and was not only in 1965 with the Bozidar Adžija price, but for his book Lokalna zajednica ( Local Communities ) and in 1970 with the Rene Sand Award, the highest award of the International Council for Social welfare, honored. In 1985 he published his book Drustvena regulacija (social control) and in 1990 he received the Vladimir Bakaric Award for Upravni sistemi ( Managing Systems ). Moreover, the price of the SFRY, he was awarded for his life's work.