GLAVNE MOTIVACIJSKE ODREDNICE GLASOVANJA NA PREDSJEDNIČKIM IZBORIMA 2000. GODINE
KEY MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF VOTING AT THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the research results of the main motivation on determinants of citizens' voting decisions at the Croatian presidentiai elections in 2000. It also portrays the specific reasons for voting for some of the leading presidentiai candidates. The research has shown that, in the elections observed, the voters' decisions were mostly based on the perceived elements of the candidates' programmatic orientations (those of a completely general and abstract significance, as well as their concretization in terms of the expected contribution to the realization of fundamental national goals). It was also considerably based on an assessment of their moral qualities. Due to the fact that these decision-making elements, as has been suggested by the results of the conducted analysis, were equally decisive in choosing all the leading candidates, it has been established that generally less important reasons of selection, ranked much lower in the hierarchical structure of dominant election motives, were much more useful in discriminating among the potential voters for specific presidentiai competitors. These are first and foremost certain personality traits, the candidate's party membership and the perceived relationship towards the policy of the formerly ruling party and former President of the Republic.

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