AUTORITARNOST I PERCEPCIJA OSTVARENE DEMOKRACIJE U HRVATSKOJ: ANALIZA ODNOSA NA UZORKU STUDENATA
ANALYSIS OF RELATION BETWEEN AUTHORITARIANISM AND PERCEPTION OF DEMOCRACY IN STUDENTS' POPULATION

Summary/Abstract: In this article we examined the contribution of sociodemographic variables (sex, parental education, self-assessment of socioeconomic status, subjects’ residential background, importance of religion and type of subjects’ faculty) in predicting authoritarianism, as well as the relation between authoritarianism and perception of democracy in Croatia. The questionnaire tapping authoritarianism (twelve items) and perception of democracy (eight items) was administered to a stratified sample of university students in Zagreb, Croatia (N = 334). Multiple regression analysis indicates a statistically significant contribution of sex, father’s education, importance of religion and type of the faculty in explanation of the results obtained on authoritarianism scale. This regression model explains 38% of variance in authoritarianism. Our results corroborated previous results obtained in Western countries. Authoritarianism correlates positively but moderately with the perception of democracy in Croatia (r = 0.317). High authoritarians are less critical toward the achieved degree of democracy in Croatia. They differ from low authoritarians on seven of eight Democracy Scale items.

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