Original scientific paper
Ideological and Sociodemographic Profiles of Voters of Croatian Political Parties: Towards Stable Political Grouping?
Goran MILAS
Josip BURUŠIĆ
Abstract
The work analyses the profiling of the Croatian political
scene equally on the descriptive and structural levels. From a
probability sample of 1248 citizens, 531 possible voters of
the strongest Croatian political parties were selected (HDZ,
SDP, HSS, HNS and HSP), which were then by means of
discriminative analysis compared with regard to the
represented social attitudes (ideological profile) and
sociodemographic characteristics. The results indicate that
the connection between ideological and status determinants on the one hand and voting intentions on the other, even
more than a decade after introducing the multi-party system
in Croatia, is relatively modest, which speaks in support of
the hypothesis on the unstable structure of the electorate,
wherefore the decision of the individual resides to a greater
extent in the specific, and less in global attitudes. Parties,
according to their attitudes and social features characteristic
of their own electorate, can only be roughly divided one
from the other, mostly based on a unified ideological
dimension, the continuum conservative – liberal, on one end
of which are the voters of HDZ, HSS and HSP, while on the
other stand the voters of SDP and HNS.
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Hrčak ID:
16122
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2004.
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