Socijalistički savez kao faktor podizanja i razvijanja samoupravljačke političke kulture
Socialist Alliance as a Factor of Raising and Development of Self-Governmental Political Culture

Summary/Abstract: The Socialist Alliance of Croatia is more and more conscious of the fact and it more and more respects the fact that in the conditions of more and more complex and dynamic social political processes in the course of which there have been raising numeral new forms of organization and integration of our self-governmental society and new self-governmental productive and social relations have been developing accompanied by strong tendencies of becoming more and more independent in the sphere of the centers of economic and political power and dominance of monopoly of different aspects — that in such conditions political life itself becomes more and more intensive and rich, but also more and more complex and subtle, because politics more and more penetrates into the everyday life, into understanding and behaviour of a wider circle of citizens belonging to most different social structure and strata. Starting from this point Socialist Alliance has found that their political action cannot be successful, besides other reasons, without firm support of scientific research and establishing very complex and subtle movements in the sphere of public opinion. Therefore the Republic Conference together with the Institute for Social Research of the University of Zagreb have stared the long run. systematic, periodic research of the public opinion of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. Three examinations of public opinion have been made so far about actual social-political questions. The results of these investigations say that vast majority of population of the S. R. of Croatia are satisfied with general political conditions in our country’. The percentage of the examined who decidedly declared that they were »entirely« or »mainly« satisfied was between 92, which number was in the time of the known events in Czechoslovakia, and 89,5 at the very beginning and 86,2 at the end of 1969 (in October). Very characteristic seem to be the data about that how the public of the S. R. of Croatia qualifies self-government as well as successful actions of particular representative and self-governing bodies and their organs. The action of the Communal Assembly is marked as the most successful (it is marked as »very successful« by 52%), and then follow the Republic Assembly and the Federal Assembly (51% of population). The action of the place communities is marked as »very successful« by a lower number of 42% a of the examined. The actions of the workers' councils are marked as »very successful« by 41% a, of managing boards by 39%. of the councils of economic units by 32% and of the meetings of working communities by 29° a the examined. It is symptomatic that those self-governing institutions which are nearest to citizens have achieved lower marks. I think it is because people are more critical towards them just because they are directly connected with them in their everyday life. It seems that from this point of view it would be necessary to valuate also »the perception of the influence of the body of political decision«. Dr. Pavle Novosel considers — meanwhile — that in the answer to the question »does the work of the organ of self- government in a place leads to better conditions or would it be letter without such work«, 59% of the examined say that this work »leads sometimes to better results and sometimes not«, so that it seems as »more negative than positive«.

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