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Quelques jugements portés par les belges sur le présent et l'avenir de leur société

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Abstract

T he article studies the answers collected for seven questions : four of these deal with the present functioning of the socio-political system ; the three last questions concern the future of the system. One has studied respectively : the attitudes towards the basic values of the consumers' society ; the level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with life in Belgium ; the developments in satisfaction or dissatisfaction during the last four 
years ; how the various main social categories judge their living conditions ; the attitudes towards an eventual redistribution of national income; the opinions about the probable development of the political system ; those opinions which reveal how one wants the political system to develop. The study of these two last items has allowed to tackle some problems of theoretical interpretation : revolutionary vs. authoritarian risk, dissatisfaction «within the regime» vs. «against the regime», ambivalence of political attitudes, social function of the political power, revolutionary attitudes and rational calculus.

How to Cite:

Bernard, S., (1975) “Quelques jugements portés par les belges sur le présent et l'avenir de leur société”, Res Publica 17(4), 589-618. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/rp.v17i4.19532