RAZLIKE U STAVOVIMA O KRAJNJIM UČINCIMA PRIVATIZACIJE U HRVATSKOJ
DIFFERENCES IN ATTITUDES ON THE ULTIMATE EFFECTS OF PRIVATIZATION IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: The opinion poll on privatization in Croatia has demonstrated a high degree of citizens' dissatisfaction with the consequences of privatization in Croatia. The public opinion on numerous issues concerning privatization was examined: such as desirable and realized goals, successfulness of privatized companies, responsibility for the negative effects of privatization, the revision of privatization and the role of privatization in the current social crisis in Croatia (Rogić, Cengić, 1999). In this paper the author went a step further in order to explore whether there were differences in the examinees' opinions on the ultimate effects of privatization, with regard to their membership in different social groups which had not been equally touched by the consequences of privatization.The answers of four different samples were compared: of the sample of returning migrants, victims of the Croatian War of Independence, general managers whose companies entered the so-called coupon or mass privatization and the sample of "ordinary" citizens. A unidirectional analysis of variance determined statistically significant differences in seven (out of eight) variables measuring attitudes on the ultimate effects of privatization. A more detailed analysis (t-test) demonstrated significant differences indicating a higher degree of criticism in none other but the sample of the general public. It is interesting that war-victims express, on average, a lesser degree of criticism than the sample of ordinary citizens.

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