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Authoritarianism, Attitudes Toward Democracy and Perception of Future Socio-political Development of Croatia
Dinka ČORKALO
Željka KAMENOV
Meri TADINAC-BABIĆ
Sažetak
The aim of this study was to determine the role of socio-demographic
variables, political orientation and the declared importance
of religion in the interpretation of authoritarianism, and
to establish the relations between those variables, the perception
of the current democracy level and attitudes towards the perspectives
of the future development of Croatia. The investigation included
two samples: the representative sample of students from
the University of Zagreb (N=334) and the employed citizens of
Croatia (N=383). The authoritarianism scale, the scale of preferred
directions of Croatian development and the scale of perception
of democracy were administered. The variables that
proved to be significant for the interpretation of the authoritarianism
were gender, the declared importance of religion, political
preference and the economic status. A significant correlation between
authoritarianism and the perception of the current democracy level was found, while both these variables were correlated
with the preferences for certain directions of socio-political development.
The results equivocally show that our subjects are critical
towards the actual level of democracy and that they prefer the
liberal course of development in Croatia. The preference for the
more conservative development expressed by some of our subjects
can be explained in terms of the right-wing political orientation
and the declared importance of religion, higher levels of
authoritarianism and relative satisfaction with the current state of
democracy in Croatia.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19899
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2001.
Posjeta: 2.085 *