Sustav vrijednosti kao odrednica dominantnih političkih preferencija
Personal Values as a Determinant of Dominant Political Preferences

Summary/Abstract: The work analyses the role of basic personal values in the political choice of Croatian voters. From a probability sample of 1130 citizens, 436 potential voters of the two strongest Croatian political parties were selected (HDZ and SDP). The relative contribution of personal values to political choice was assessed by means of binary logistic regression. Demographic variables (sex, age, education and household income) were entered in the analyses as a separate block of predictors. The study revealed that the analysed predictors have a rather moderate explanatory power in predicting the intention to vote. Both sets of predictors accounted for approximately 20% of the variability in political choice. However, the importance attributed to personal values (namely, values of tradition and universalism) demonstrated stronger associations with voters’ political preferences than did the background variables, accounting therefore for the significantly larger proportion of variance in future voting.

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