MIŠLJENJE JAVNOSTI O HRVATSKIM POLITIČARIMA I POLITIČKIM STRANKAMA KAO POKAZATELJ DIMENZIONALNOSTI I PRIRODE HRVATSKOG POLITIČKOG PROSTORA
PUBLIC OPINION ON CROATIAN POLITICIANS AND POLITICAL PARTIES AS INDICATORS OF DIMENSIONALITY AND THE NATURE OF THE CROATIAN POLITICAL SCENE

Summary/Abstract: The principal component analysis procedure is used in the paper in order to gather more knowledge, based on citizens' attitudes concerning Croatian political subjects, about the fundamental determinants upon which lies the perception of the Croatian political scene. A number of research projects in the pre-election period have shown that the body of Croatian political SUbjects is recognized in the public by means of categories of the "left", "right" and "central" political blocs. All the manifest diversity of party-life can be reduced to the following three factors. In assessment of figures from the political scene the public attaches to them corresponding attributes ("left", "right" and "centre"), but the ruling party is perceived as a separate entity and not as a member of the "right-wing" orientation, as is the case in assessment of parties. The pre-election dynamics of the Croatian political scene has been identified by the conducted research as a greater interior homogenization of parties, in the first place of the HDZ.

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