Role of Government and Slovenian Public Opinion 1989

Functions and tasks of the state.
Topics: 1. Citizen rights: law-abidingness and selected forms
of protest against the government; freedom of speech and freedom
of the press even for revolutionaries and racists; police
intervention in the private sphere to prevent crimes; principle
of rule by law, in doubt for the accused; attitude to participants
in demonstrations, racists and revolutionaries.
2. Government intervention: tax progression and income
re-distribution by the government; government measures regarding
control of wages, salaries and prices as well as the reduction
of government expenditures; government job creation measures,
measures to stimulate the economy and subsidies; preference for
reduced government economic control; reduction in working hours
versus creating new jobs; preference for an increase or reduction
in government expenditures, applied to selected political areas;
priority for fighting inflation or fighting unemployment;
influence of trade unions, industry and government; position of
the government in electricity supply, the steel industry as well
as banking and insurance; attitudes to a government job guarantee,
to price control, to national health care, to maintenance of an
appropriate standard of living for old people and the unemployed;
to reduction in income differences, to support of students from
poorer families and to providing housing opportunities for the
poor; interest in politics.