The central topic of the proposed research project is the analysis of social stratification of contemporary slovene society. Within this general framework the focus was particularly on the role of cultural differentiation, including »digital divide« in the constitution of class differences. Generally, the research team analysed how the class differentiation is expressed through cultural consumption and cultural taste - particularly through media consumption and the use of new technologies - and in the field of political values and citizenship. More specific goals of the research project were to assess the relationship between cultural and economic aspects of class in specific Slovene circumstances , the formation of national social indicators of class structure and proposing policy measures that would support social cohesiveness as an aspect of quality of life in slovene society.
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
COBISS.SI-ID: 30499933The paper discusses reasons of the failure of the Slovenian governmentʼs pension reform proposal in general referendum based on statistical analysis of public opinion polls and content analysis of referendum campaign. In the time of economic crisis and in the context of general anti-reform mood, the pension reform bringing reduction of existing rights didnʼt have much chances to succeed from the very beginning. Opinion polls show that low public support to the government was crucial for the reform proposal failure. Support to the reform proposal was denied by voters gravitating towards the political centre, by those who donʼt support the government coalition, by non-partisan voters and by those with secondary and lower education. Since they represent the largest part of the electoral body, no referendum can succeed without their support. The most important arguments used in the referendum campaign were those related to (in)justness of the proposed reform and to (un)founded macroeconomic arguments for the reform. Thus, if a structural reform is put on the referendum, a high public support to the government proposing the reformand the perception that, in spite of its urgency and unpleasantness, thereform is essentially fair, are crucial conditions for its adoption.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
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