POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Montesquieu, Social Capital, Ronald Inglehart

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 100
• Professor: Eline De Rooij

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Three important questions that have interested political scientists for a long time are: to. What does a democratic culture look like: threee differe(cid:374)t a(cid:374)s(cid:449)ers i(cid:374) the (cid:272)urre(cid:374)t literature(cid:863, system support approach, social capital approach, human development approach. System support approach: in the civic culture (1963), almond and verba discuss the results from a sample survey of people in germany, italy, mexico, the united. Kingdom and the united states: they asked questions about, whether individuals believe. Postmaterialist vlaues: materialist values are those that stress the importance of economic growth, physical security, and order, postmaterialist values . Political socialization: politi(cid:272)al so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) refers to (cid:862)the pro(cid:272)esses (cid:271)y (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the (cid:448)alues, attitudes, a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eliefs of the . Democratic culture: the three approaches each stress different aspects of mass culture as being of central importance to democracy, but democracy may also depend on, support for the basic principles of democracy. 5: factors affecting voting behavious can be divided into two basic categories: