CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Balkovic, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Public opinion on public education spending in Croatia |
| Summary | The data from the Life in Transition survey shows that in Croatia, unlike in the other post-socialistic countries, citizens give priority for extra public spending to the public education. Thus, the questions this thesis seeks to answer are why Croatians advocate more public spending on public education and not on different social policy fields and whether different socio-economic groups support extra public education spending as their top priority policy field for more public spending. Process tracing is used in the first stage of research, while logistic and multinomial logistic regressions are conducted in the second stage. The findings show that public opinion on public education expenditures is affected by the previous Yugoslav welfare state arrangements, but it also depends on timing of enacted and proposed policies which introduced the public education expenditure cuts. The logistic regression results show that the age is the most important predictor of attitudes towards public education expenditures. As older respondents are, they are less likely to support public education expenditures than their younger countrymen. The multinomial logistic regression findings support this result and show that younger people prioritize public expenditures for public education and housing over expenditures for health care, while older give priority to old-age pensions. |
| Supervisor | Kovacs, Borbala |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/balkovic_ana.pdf |
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