POSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Terroir, Yle, Civic Engagement

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 1000
• Professor: Osvaldo Croci

Document Summary

Origins of the concept: failure of new democracies in the 1960s. Political culture is to politics (cid:449)hat the (cid:858)terroir(cid:859) (cid:894)soil, (cid:374)ature of the soil(cid:895) is to (cid:449)i(cid:374)e. Political culture: general political values and beliefs that are widely held in within a community. Assumed to impact politics and public policy. U traditio(cid:374)ally see(cid:374) as ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)ore (cid:858)(cid:272)lassi(cid:272) li(cid:271)eral(cid:859) politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ulture tha(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada. Explanations given by hartz and horowitz (key: loyalists) and lipset (absence of revolution) Certain conditions must be present for democracies to work properly. The political culture is assumed to have an impact on how democratic systems work. Core aspects of political culture: political interest and knowledge, expectations about government, participation and sense of political efficacy. Is the process by which political values, attitudes, and beliefs are transmitted to citizens. Life (cid:272)y(cid:272)le effe(cid:272)t: age affe(cid:272)ts o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s attitudes a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Post-materialist values (politics not paying much attention to them)