Politics of World Views

The book analyzes the organization of political attitudes inSerbia, and the role of ideological dimensions in understandingpolitical behavior. The analysis combines detailed analysis ofsurvey data with qualitative analysis of Serbian politics between1990 and 2002. The results of structural analyses show that Serbianmass political attitudes vary along fifteen latent dimensions,including dimensions such as nationalism, militarism, economicliberalism, and environmentalism. They converge toward more generalideological dimensions such as the ?regime divide? dimension, orthe right-wing conservatism. Both more specific and abstractdimensions predict political preferences. This work offers aninsight into the structure of political and ideological space in adeeply polarized democratizing country. It also offers aninterpretation of Serbian politics in terms of a cleavage ofworld-views. The book is relevant for students and scholarsinterested in post-communist politics, and Serbia in particular. Itshould be equally useful to those interested in more generalproblems of the structure of political attitudes and their role inpolitical behavior.