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The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly one of the more significant events that marked the21st century and changed the world. Also, the 21st century was marked by the peculiar rule of USA President Donald Trump. Trumpism as a concept has influenced many aspects of peoples lives around the world. Drawing on statements by former USA President Donald Trump regarding the global pandemic, the question arises as to whether trumpism could have had a global scale to spread the virus. As procedural fairness is one of the essential factors for compliance, this paper relates the concepts of procedural justice, compliance, and trumpism. The paper offers a unique review of literature and research, providing practical implications and suggestions for future international comparative research of these concepts.

The paper aims to investigate the theoretical assumption that the value system (according to the Schwartz model) is associated with compliance with recommendations to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the theoretical assumption, persons whose value system emphasizes social focus and whose values are self-transcendence and conservation will comply with measures to a greater extent. On the other hand, people whose value system is focused on personal focus and whose values self-direction and openness to change will be less compliant with measures for combating the spread of the virus. The research was conducted in three Southeastern European countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia using a survey of 1024 students. The Schwartz scale on basic human values was used as a research instrument. The research was conducted at the very beginning of the pandemic (March and April 2020). The results of the hierarchical regression showed that the values of openness to change (personal focus) and conservation (social focus) are significant predictors of compliance with measures and trust in institutions and sex.

The objective of this study is to explore how much power as a value in general, power in the sense of domination, and power over natural and social resources is important to students in Southeast Europe, whether it differs among states and what significance does it have in relation to other values. In order to achieve the objective of the study, Schwartz's PVQ-RR questionnaire was used, which has been widely used in international research of values and turned out to be the most reliable instrument for that sort of research. The study was performed using a quantitative survey method in seven states of Southeast Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Serbia). The descriptive analysis of ranking shows how power as a value is the lowest ranking value in the states of Southeast Europe as it is the case also in Western states, where such research has already been performed. Among the observed countries of Southeast Europe, there are statistically significant differences in the value of power as domination considering an individual state, while there are no statistically significant differences in the value of power over natural and social resources in the states of Southeast Europe. Taking into consideration the lack of such studies in this geopolitical area, it becomes apparent that further and more detailed research is needed regarding social values for students and also for the general population in Southeast Europe.