00989nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000100001900041245008900060260000900149300001500158504000800173520059200181650001300773650001400786773004300800181130s2018 xx 000 0 und d aGarding, Sarah aWeak by design?:bdiaspora engagement and institutional change in Croatia and Serbia c2018 ap.353-368. dJun aDiaspora engagement has increasingly been adopted as a strategy for leveraging migration�s development potential. While a rich literature accounts for the emergence of diaspora engagement institutions, there is less research on how these institutions perform in practice and why they change over time. This article compares change across diaspora ministries in Croatia and Serbia from 1990 to 2015. It was found that institutional change was driven by conflict between parties and within parties rather than by the state�s collective economic or geopolitical interests. - Reproduced. aDiaspora aMigration aInternational Political Science Review