Political competence of Croatian secondary school students 2010–2021

Professor Berto Šalaj, PhD, Anja Gvozdanović, PhD and Martina Horvat are the authors of the scientific paper “Political competence of Croatian secondary school students 2010–2021”. The paper was published in the journal “Citizenship, Social and Economics Education”.

From the Abstract: Political knowledge and democratic attitudes are recognized in contemporary studies as important dimensions of democratic political culture. Furthermore, knowledge and attitudes can be seen as integral parts of political competence. Unlike other dimensions of political culture such as, for example, political participation, political interest, etc., research on political knowledge and democratic attitudes are more an exception than a rule. This assessment is especially true for Croatia. In this paper, we attempt to address some of these gaps by focusing on the exploration of political competences of Croatian final-year secondary school students examined in three time points - 2010, 2015 and 2021. By doing so, we want to detect the levels of political knowledge and democratic attitudes, as well as the possible changes that occurred in these levels during the research period. Finally, we are also interested in the relationship between these two dimensions of political competence.

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