Razvijenost građanstva u jadranskim regijama
LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE ADRIATIC REGIONS

Summary/Abstract: The articles analyzes the level of development of citizenship in the Adriatic regions, i.e. in a selection of cities. For the purpose of analysis of citizenship, from the liberal and communitarian conceptions, as well as the theories of rational choice and structural theories, which are based upon them, various models of citizenship have been derived: the model of cognitive engagement, the model of general stimuli, the model of civil voluntarism, and the model of social capital. From said models variables are operationalized, which are measured according to a sample survey based on a random stratified sample of 1127 examinees. The results obtained by descriptive analysis of the models of citizenship testify to a varied distribution of examined variables, which points to the complexity of citizenship measurement. The distribution of results shows more or less expected frequencies of particular indicators, with no extreme deviations. The discriminative analysis has demonstrated that up to 9 percent of total variability between groups of examinees in different regions may be ascribed to sets of examined variables of different citizenship models. Such variability between regions is expected, for they have a highly similar cultural heritage with common history and a similar political and social context. Still, the ascertained interregional differences with regard to the variables of citizenship models, although they are not momentous, can be ascribed to some specific traits of areas under consideration. The results show that differences between examinees are caused by residence in a particular city rather than by social-economical and urban characteristics, which clearly confirms the importance of the social and spatial context, and of culturological conditioning in the development of citizenship.

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