Izvorni znanstveni članak
National Pride and Openness to European Integrations
Vesna LAMZA POSAVEC
Ivana FERIĆ
Stanko RIHTAR
Sažetak
In the paper the authors investigated the hypothesis that the
greater or lesser openness of the public towards the
accession of Croatia to the European Union, is among other,
connected with the level of national pride. The data were
gathered within an extensive research project of public
opinion conducted in December 2002. Openness to
European integrations was defined as the degree of
desirability of Croatia's entering important European
associations and institutions. Identification of the degree of
national pride was based on the application of two scales,
the first of which measured the "general national pride", as
an expression of general national values, while the other was
used to determine the evaluation of specific achievements of
the country on the cultural-historical and economic-political
levels. Although, generally speaking, a great majority of the
citizens interviewed at the time of the research were very
supportive of Croatian accession to the European Union, on
both applied scales, and also expressed a relatively high
degree of national pride, the results indicate that, on the
level of general national values, persons who show a high
degree of national identification are a little less inclined
towards the accession process than persons expressing a
lesser degree of "general national pride", while a more positive evaluation of the country regarding specific social
achievements is correlated with a greater openness to the
process of accession to the European Union. However, since
the way of evaluating the social situation explains differences
in the openness to Euro-integration processes to a greater
extent than differences in general national values do, it
seems that the result of the final commitment of citizens to
entering the European Union could depend much more on
the public valorisation of the current social situation than on
how someone generally identifies with the Croatian nation.
Ključne riječi
national pride; European integrations; public opinion research
Hrčak ID:
18114
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2006.
Posjeta: 2.004 *