Politics in the Balkan countryside: case study in Serbia

• Authors: Tamara Lukić , Ivana Penjišević , Bojan Đerčan , Branislav Đurđev , Milka Bubalo Živković , Tanja Armenski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Thanks to the field observations conducted on the territory of central Serbia, it was noticed that people in rural environment, beside the optional conversations about weather conditions, most often talk about the politics. The aim of this work was to find out how many people who live in the countryside have the contact with the politics. Hypothesis were made within the communication with several examinees, but they were verified by the poll in which more than 100 persons took part. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, using T-test, one-factor analysis of ANOVA variance, and also they were checked by Post-hoc Tukey test. The work task was to find out if gender, age, as well as, professional and regional differences exist in relation to the countryside inhabitants considerations about certain political issues they have been talking about. The importance of this work is to discover whether the distance from urban environments and, life in nature can make a man less interested in and indifferent to the politics.

Keywords

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Balkan countryside; politics; Serbia

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Eastern European Countryside
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-124

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-12-20

Contributors

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Tamara Lukić

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Ivana Penjišević

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Bojan Đerčan

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Branislav Đurđev

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Milka Bubalo Živković

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Tanja Armenski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/eec-2014-0005