MIŠLJENJE GRAĐANA O POŽELJNIM KARAKTERISTIKAMA PREDSJEDNIKA REPUBLIKE, U ODNOSU NA VLASTITO BIRAČKO OPREDJELJENJE
CITIZENS' OPINION ON DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, REGARDING THEIR OWN VOTING COMMITMENT

Summary/Abstract: The reserach has attempted to ascertain the reasons which lie at the heart of the choice of presidentiai candidates. It has been indicated that the desirable characteristics of the future president can be divided to those universally desirable, namely those very important to representatives of each of the voting groups, and those which are specific of followers of only certain candidates. The first group contains features of the president's character or temperament, such as honesty, determination, empathy and tolerance. Experience and knowledge are somewhat less valued. The group of features which are by most generally not considered important for the future president consist of religious faith, the sex and age of the candidate. Discriminant analysis has shown that groups voting for Tuđman, Paraga, Cesar and Veselica, can be clearly discerned from groups voting for Budiša, Vujić and Degen, following the dimension conservativism - Iiberalism (Le. radicalism), with special emphasis on the importance of religion and nationalism as essential determinants of European Christian-Democratic tradition.

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