Nacionalni ponos i otvorenost prema europskim integracijama
National Pride and Openness to European Integrations

Summary/Abstract: 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

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