Original scientific paper

A Model of Croatian Political Scene

Goran Milas ; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb
Ivan Rimac ; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb

Abstract

In the paper various structural models concerning perception of the Croatian political scene have been tested. Covariance structure analysis of the attitudes toward the most prominent Croatian political parties revealed that the perception is based on four escential latent dimensions, different according to the nature and mutual intercorrelations, among high educated compared
to low educated persons. Although both analysis came up with four factors subsuming attitudes toward left, right, central and regional part of political scene, resulting structure is much more simple and clear for the subsample of high educated persons. The perception of the political scene among people of lower educational level is much more structurally complex, which is probably the result of using nonsubstantial and idiosyncratic criteria while evaluating particular political parties.

Keywords

political parties; Croatia; structural model; LISREL

Hrčak ID:

154867

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154867

Publication date:

30.6.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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