{"id":1489,"date":"2016-04-18T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valiconweb.sys.valicon.net\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:35:05","slug":"bosnia-and-herzegovina-large-majority-supports-the-protests-but-violence-is-too-high-a-price-for-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/bosnia-and-herzegovina-large-majority-supports-the-protests-but-violence-is-too-high-a-price-for-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnia and Herzegovina: Large majority supports the protests, but violence is too high a price for changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valicon conducted a research among B&H citizens\u00a0on their attitudes regarding the protests.<\/em><\/p>\n

Protests are the result of widespread dissatisfaction of citizens. Strong\u00a0support of protests has united the society as they are largely supported in\u00a0both political entities, in Federation of B&H and in Republic of Srpska as well. If\u00a0protests continue to be violent, support will decline, most\u00a0probably below 50%. Protests, in general, represent insurgence against\u00a0general social conditions. However, only half of respondents feel that\u00a0these protests would cause any major change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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1. In the last 7 days there were many protests in towns across Bosnia and Herzegovina. In general, what is your attitude towards protests in B&H? Do you support them?<\/p>\n

Background of the protests is general dissatisfaction in society, where very little or no\u00a0positive trends are detected: almost two-thirds of respondents are personally dissatisfied, while 90% are dissatisfied with society they live in. When we add the fact that more than half of the respondents think that the \u201cstate is going the wrong way\u201d and one-third of the respondents thinks that \u201cthe state is not\u00a0moving\u201d, it is easy to understand why a\u00a0large majority of respondents supports the protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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2. On your opinion\u2026<\/p>\n

Almost half of the citizens\u00a0(47%) fully supports the protests<\/strong>, while\u00a0general support<\/strong>\u00a0of protests\u00a0accounts for\u00a088% of citizens<\/strong>\u00a0of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The share of those who support remains high even when analyzed by subgroups: in\u00a0FB&H it is over\u00a090%<\/strong>, while in RS it is\u00a0somewhat lower than 80%<\/strong>. Almost half of the respondents expressed\u00a0support with some reserve, which is explained with the fact that\u00a0they don\u2019t support violence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Most of those who do not give full support to protests, are explaining it with their disagreement\u00a0with violence.\u00a0Citizens see these protests mostly (60%) as\u00a0insurgence against general social conditions<\/strong>.\u00a0Smaller share of respondents see protests as against\u00a0political parties in power<\/strong>\u00a0(20%) and\u00a0against\u00a0all political parties<\/strong>\u00a0(13%). Protests were least qualified as against corruption and bad\u00a0privatization.
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3. Protests were mostly directed against\u2026?<\/p>\n

In this survey, citizens were asked to assess their agreement with some statements. Most of\u00a0different assessments were related to the statement that violence is a price too high for a change\u00a0(If violence would be the only way to make a change, it is better not to change anything at all).<\/p>\n

Half of respondents doesn\u2019t agree with this statement. However, on the other hand, almost one\u00a0third agrees on this statement. This shows clear sign that public support to protests would\u00a0decline if protests would continue to be violent.<\/p>\n

However, citizens are divided regarding expectations that protests would cause radical\u00a0changes. Somewhat more than half of citizens think that protests would cause radical,\u00a0fundamental changes, while the other half thinks it would not. That shows kind of apathy regarding\u00a0politics.<\/p>\n

Methodology:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research is conducted by Valicon, marketing consulting and research company,
\nfrom 10th till 11th of February 2014, on the sample of 525 respondents aged between 18-65.
\nSample is representative, meaning it responds to population structure by age, sex and regional
\ndistribution.<\/p>\n

More information:<\/strong>
\nKemal Ko\u0161trebi\u0107
\nValicon d.o.o.
\nBranilaca Sarajeva 20, Sarajevo
\nT. 033\/258 655
\nF. 033\/258 656
\nE.\u00a0kemal.kostrebic@valicon.net<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valicon conducted a research among B&H citizens\u00a0on their attitudes regarding the protests. Protests are the result of widespread dissatisfaction of citizens. Strong\u00a0support of protests has united the society as they are largely supported in\u00a0both political entities, in Federation of B&H and in Republic of Srpska as well. If\u00a0protests continue to be violent, support will decline, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-club","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valicon.net\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}