DIO KOJI NEDOSTAJE: PROBLEM NEIZJAŠNJAVANJA U ISTRAŽIVANJIMA NAMJERA GLASOVANJA
THE MISSING PART: WITHDRAWAL OF OPINION IN RESEARCH OF VOTING INTENTIONS

Summary/Abstract: In this research the authors' aim was to explore the hypothesis that there is a difference with regard to some features relevant for participation in elections and voting preferences between persons who during questioning refuse to answer about their voting intentions for the elections and persons who agree to do so. In the results of the analyses (one-way analysis of variance, discriminative analysis), carried out on corresponding research data from 1996 and 1997, there were extracted certain specific features of unresponsive examinees based on which we can, with a degree of probability, predict the examinees' electional behaviour. Examinees who withhold answers are much less informed about the elections and are less interested in them than persons who express their voting preferences, meaning that their turnout at the elections will probably be much lower.

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