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Developing Responsible Citizens in Serbia: The Case of Ecological Citizenship

The analysis relies on the concepts of participative democracy and ecological citizenship. The paper discusses dilemmas related to development of (ecological) citizenship in matured democratic systems as well as in post-socialist countries. The main analytical focus is on the challenges of generating environmentally responsible citizens in Serbia. This analysis is based on empirical data obtained through questionnaire research on representative sample for citizens in Serbia (N=1950) in 2010. One of the main conclusions is that dominant model of the citizen in Serbia is „orientation to the state“, since most of the respondents expect from state actors to play a leading role in achieving higher standards and better quality of the environment. For developing a model of the responsible citizens (who would consider the environmental protection to be a civic duty), there is a lack of essential citizens’ confidence in institutions, as well as in their fellow citizens.

ISSN
2285-4916
Extent
Seite(n): 48-61
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 1(1)

Subject
Ökologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
Ökologie und Umwelt
Serbien
politische Partizipation
Zivilgesellschaft
Bürgerbeteiligung
Bürger
Umweltverhalten
Umweltschutz
postsozialistisches Land

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Petrović, Mina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2012

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-341772
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Petrović, Mina

Time of origin

  • 2012

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