Preliminary communication
SOCIAL CLEAVAGES AND PARTY PREFERENCES IN ELECTIONS FOR CROATIAN PARLIAMENT IN 2003
Dragan Bagić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0371-838X
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
By applying the analytical model derived by Deegan-Krause, the
paper analyzes social cleavages underpinning the party preferences in the elections for the Croatian Parliament in 2003. The results of the
research carried out on a sample of 2,000 adult Croatian citizens by
phone interviews two days before the elections indicate that this
model has identified relatively shallow social cleavages underlying
the voting behaviour in the analyzed elections. Namely, out of thirteen
analyzed attitudes only three significantly explain a part of the
variance in party preferences, the most significant being the attitude
concerning the cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague and the attitude concerning
abortion. The results also show there is a significant link among certain socio-demographic characteristics, the attitudes about the political issues in question and the party preferences. This means that there might be a social cleavage at work here.
Keywords
elections for Croatian Parliament; political parties; voting beliefs; social cleavages
Hrčak ID:
20781
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2007.
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