 Although he was appointed as a representative in the Croatian Parliament as a member of the People's Party in 1871, he soon turned unionist, and has not entered the civil service ever since.As a political writer Vukotinović made appearance with "Ilirizam i kroatizam" ("Illyrism and Croatim", 1842), an essay in which the debated on the cultural and linguistic unity of South Slavs based on their ethnic unity, and the struggle for an independent position of Croatia within the Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy.In a debate "Regni Slavoniae erga Hungarium legalis correlatio" ("The legal relationship between the Kingdom of Slavonia to Hungary", 1845) he opposed the Hungarian encroachments of three Slavonian counties (Virovitica, Syrmia and Požega counties), stressing the state unity of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.