Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 70 No. 2, 2000.
Original scientific paper
Some Determinants of Trust in the Institutions of the Political System in Croatia
Ivan Rimac
; Institute of Social Science «Ivo Pilar», Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The analysis of trust in different institutions of the political system has shown that all the answers given by the respondents are generated on the grounds of the same mechanism of the evaluation of institutions, which offers the basis for a conclusion on the factor of general trust in the political system, and for several minor factors, which add to smaller distinctions among particular groups of institutions. The analysis of the changes in the trust in the political system, measured in whole through a summarised evaluation of all the institutions in the period from 1997 to 1999 shows that the decrease of the trust in the institutions of the system has occurred. The main reason is possible to detect in the parochial cultural pattern that dominates within the voter's approach to political trust. Therefore, the decrease of the trust in the institutions is caused by the decrease of the trust in the party in power (HDZ), where the evaluation of its performances cannot be detached from the evaluation of the institutions of the political system.
Keywords
political trust; political culture
Hrčak ID:
31172
URI
Publication date:
15.11.2000.
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