The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 355 p.
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TY - BOOK
T1 - The Civic Culture Transformed
T2 - From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
A2 - Dalton, Russell
A2 - Welzel, Christian
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.
AB - This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.
KW - Politics
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84952654212&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/CBO9781139600002
DO - 10.1017/CBO9781139600002
M3 - Book
SN - 9781107039261
BT - The Civic Culture Transformed
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - New York
ER -