Original scientific paper
Political Culture and Transition
Ivan Šiber
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author defines the term political culture and answers the questions, first, whether political culture is only a matter of belonging to the democratic tradition or whether it must also necessarily contain some new contents appropriate to the desired quality of social relationships; and second, to what degree do the absence of traditions belonging to civil society and, equally, the presence of an authoritarian tradition, hinder the development of democratic processes and relationships. He comes to the conclusion that the socalist/communist set-up which existed in the whole of Eastern Europe and on the territory of former Yugoslavia did not succeed in establishing a political culture in their societies that would facilitate a comparatively painless transition into a democratic, pluralist, civil society.
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112399
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Publication date:
1.9.1992.
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