Cultural change in Asia and beyond: From allegiant to assertive citizens
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In: Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 01.06.2017, p. 112-132.
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T1 - Cultural change in Asia and beyond
T2 - From allegiant to assertive citizens
AU - Welzel, Christian Peter
AU - Dalton, Russell
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - In their classic, The Civic Culture, Almond and Verba (1963) define the ideal democratic citizen as an allegiant, trustful, and modestly participatory person. This ideal has shaped how scholars think about consolidated democracies as well the process of democratic development. In contrast, we argue that a new model of assertive citizenship spreads as nations experience social modernization, and that these new norms have potentially positive consequences for government performance. We replicate earlier analyses by Welzel and Dalton (2014) using the new sixth wave of the World Values Survey. Our results broadly confirm the earlier findings on the shift toward a more assertive model of citizenship and the consequences of this shift in producing more effective and accountable governments.
AB - In their classic, The Civic Culture, Almond and Verba (1963) define the ideal democratic citizen as an allegiant, trustful, and modestly participatory person. This ideal has shaped how scholars think about consolidated democracies as well the process of democratic development. In contrast, we argue that a new model of assertive citizenship spreads as nations experience social modernization, and that these new norms have potentially positive consequences for government performance. We replicate earlier analyses by Welzel and Dalton (2014) using the new sixth wave of the World Values Survey. Our results broadly confirm the earlier findings on the shift toward a more assertive model of citizenship and the consequences of this shift in producing more effective and accountable governments.
KW - Politics
KW - Demokratieforschung
KW - Politische Kultur
KW - democratization
KW - goverment performance
KW - political culture
KW - value change
KW - World Values Survey
KW - democratization
KW - government performance
KW - political culture
KW - value change
KW - World Values Survey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049621064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/2057891116675978
DO - 10.1177/2057891116675978
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 2
SP - 112
EP - 132
JO - Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
JF - Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
SN - 2057-892X
IS - 2
ER -