Original scientific paper
VOTERS’ ORIENTATIONS AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICTS DURING WORLD WAR TWO: The Importance of Familial Political Biography
Ivan Šiber
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper analyses the influence of familial “political biographies” during World War II on party preferences. The survey has shown that about 50% of its subjects have a single-track political biography /they belonged to either the partisan movement (NOB) or the army of the Independent Croatian State (NDH)/. The individuals whose political biography is NOB-inclined have a markedly more negative attitude towards the Croatian state of the II World War and Ante Paveli}, positively assess Josip Broz Tito, are less religious and prefer leftist parties. The individuals who have the NDH biography have a positive opinion of the Croatian state during II World War and Ante Paveli}, negatively assess Josip Broz, are much more religious and vote for the parties of the right. The individuals whose families did not get involved into the conflict or have a “mixed” political biography, are moderately religious and largely vote for centrist parties. Besides the political biography factor, the degree of religiosity has proved an extremely important factor in the choice of political parties.
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105734
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Publication date:
18.6.1997.
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