The civic culture transformed : from allegiant to assertive citizens /

This book reevaluates 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dalton, Russell J. (Editor), Welzel, Christian, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:World values survey books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: pushing the envelope: analyzing the impact of values / Marita R. Inglehart
  • 1. Political culture and value change / Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel
  • Part I: Changing Values. 2. Value change over a third of a century: the evidence for generational replacement / Paul R. Abramson ; 3. The decline of deference revisited: evidence after twenty-five years / Neil Nevitte ; 4. Enlightening people: the spark of emancipative values / Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno
  • Part II:Changing Images of Government. 5. Reassessing the civic-culture model / Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin ; 6. Dissatisfied democrats: democratic maturation in old and new democracies / Hans-Dieter Klingemann ; 7. Support for democracy in postcommunist Europe and post Soviet Eurasia / Christian Haerpfer and Kseniya Kizilova
  • Part III: The Impact of Cultural Change. 8. The structure and sources of global environmental attitudes / Robert Rohrschneider, Matthew Miles and Mark Peffley ; 9. Social change and the politics of protest / Tor Georg Jakobsen and Ola Listhaug ; 10. Mecca or oil?: why Arab states lag in gender equality / Pippa Norris ; 11. Allegiance eroding: people's dwindling willingness to fight in wars / Bi Puranen ; 12. From allegiant to assertive citizens / Christian Welzel and Russell J. Dalton.