Politička kultura i tranzicija
Political Culture and Transition

Summary/Abstract: The author defines the term political culture and answers the questions, first, whether political culture is only a matter belonging to the democratic tradition or whether it must also necessarily contain some new contents appropriate to the desired quality of social relationships; and second, to what degree do the absence of traditions belonging to civil society and, equally, the presence of an authoritarian tradition, hinder the development of democratic processes and relationships. He comes to the conclusion that the socialist/communist setups which existed in the whole of Eastern Europe and on the territory of former Yugoslavia did not succeed in establishing a political culture in their societies that would facilitate a comparatively painless transition into a democratic, pluralist, civil society.

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