POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ronald Inglehart, John Stuart Mill, Post-Materialism

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

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A politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ulture is the (cid:862)fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal politi(cid:272)al (cid:448)alues, (cid:271)eliefs, a(cid:374)d orie(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s that are (cid:449)idely held (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:272)ourse (cid:271)ook(cid:895) What does a democratic culture look like: 1. System support approach: they argued that the most suitable basis for democracy involves a mixture of participant and subject political roles called civic culture, 2. Social capital approach: putnam suggested that these different regions had diverging stocks of social capital, networks mainly (cid:448)olu(cid:374)tary orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)s , norms of reciprocity, generalized trust, social capital is thus a resource that is found in the connections, 3. Interpersonal trust: a preference for gradual societal change, support for the existing political system, life satisfaction, postmaterialism. The scarcity hypothesis: people place the greatest subjective value on those things that are in relative short supply: 2. Political participation: on average, nearly three-quarters of adults in the established democracies vote in a national election, long-term vs. short-term voting factors.