Political culture vs. rational choice: support for democracy in Serbia
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This paper deals with some predictors of the general support for democracy in the light of the two competing
models, cultural and rational choice, which have different implications for the possibility of the development of mass
support for democracy in former communist societies. The paper aims at clarifying the importance of certain
“institutional” and “cultural” variables for the general support for democracy in Serbia. The data used in the paper
were collected in the post-election survey, conducted after the May 2012 parliamentary and presidential elections on
a representative sample of Serbian citizens (N=1,568). The relative importance of 15 predictors was analyzed: the
socio-demographic variables (respondent’s gender, age, educational level, monthly household income), the
institutional variables (satisfaction with Serbian democracy and economy, evaluation of the government performance
before the election, the perceived level of respect for individual freedom and the quali...ty of voters’ view
representation in elections) and the cultural variables (political tolerance, authoritarianism, nationalism and socialist
egalitarianism). In the hierarchical regression analysis, the general support for democracy was first regressed on
socio-demographic variables, then the cultural variables were added as well as the institutional variables in the final
step. Each model had a greater explanatory power, significantly increasing the explained percent of variance. The
most important predictors of support for democracy were satisfaction with Serbian democracy (β=.12, p<.001) and
evaluation of government performance (β=.23, p<.001); the citizens who were more satisfied with democracy and
more inclined to positively evaluate the government performance were more supportive of democracy. The
concluding part discusses the implications of the obtained results for the development of democratic political culture
and consolidation of democratic institutions in a transitional society
Кључне речи:
political culture / democracy / political values / serbiaИзвор:
Eastern European Political Cultures. Modeling Studies, 2013, 137-154Издавач:
- Faculty of Political Science University of Bucharest
Институција/група
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CHAP AU - Pavlović, Zoran PY - 2013 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5201 AB - This paper deals with some predictors of the general support for democracy in the light of the two competing models, cultural and rational choice, which have different implications for the possibility of the development of mass support for democracy in former communist societies. The paper aims at clarifying the importance of certain “institutional” and “cultural” variables for the general support for democracy in Serbia. The data used in the paper were collected in the post-election survey, conducted after the May 2012 parliamentary and presidential elections on a representative sample of Serbian citizens (N=1,568). The relative importance of 15 predictors was analyzed: the socio-demographic variables (respondent’s gender, age, educational level, monthly household income), the institutional variables (satisfaction with Serbian democracy and economy, evaluation of the government performance before the election, the perceived level of respect for individual freedom and the quality of voters’ view representation in elections) and the cultural variables (political tolerance, authoritarianism, nationalism and socialist egalitarianism). In the hierarchical regression analysis, the general support for democracy was first regressed on socio-demographic variables, then the cultural variables were added as well as the institutional variables in the final step. Each model had a greater explanatory power, significantly increasing the explained percent of variance. The most important predictors of support for democracy were satisfaction with Serbian democracy (β=.12, p<.001) and evaluation of government performance (β=.23, p<.001); the citizens who were more satisfied with democracy and more inclined to positively evaluate the government performance were more supportive of democracy. The concluding part discusses the implications of the obtained results for the development of democratic political culture and consolidation of democratic institutions in a transitional society PB - Faculty of Political Science University of Bucharest T2 - Eastern European Political Cultures. Modeling Studies T1 - Political culture vs. rational choice: support for democracy in Serbia EP - 154 SP - 137 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5201 ER -
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Pavlović, Z.. (2013). Political culture vs. rational choice: support for democracy in Serbia. in Eastern European Political Cultures. Modeling Studies Faculty of Political Science University of Bucharest., 137-154. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5201
Pavlović Z. Political culture vs. rational choice: support for democracy in Serbia. in Eastern European Political Cultures. Modeling Studies. 2013;:137-154. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5201 .
Pavlović, Zoran, "Political culture vs. rational choice: support for democracy in Serbia" in Eastern European Political Cultures. Modeling Studies (2013):137-154, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5201 .