Politics in the Balkan countryside: case study in Serbia

Abstract

Abstractanks to the eld observations conducted on the territory of central Serbia, it was noticed that people in rural environment, beside the optional conversations about weather conditions, most o en talk about the politics. e aim of this work was to nd 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 veri ed 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. e work task was to nd out if gender, age, as well as, professional and regional di erences exist in relation to the countryside inhabitants considerations about certain political issues they have been talking about. e 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 indi erent to the politics.

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