POLS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Mobility, Authoritarianism

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

When it comes to a country achieving a stable/effective democratic system political culture that induces it is required. Smoother if political culture is a civic culture. What can political system can do for its people & expectations. Plays a role in determining attitudinal dimensions towards respective political systems. This is why empirical data can"t be only reliant resource: allegiant political culture. Being more positive towards system more likely to abide. Respect authority if u feel authority is taking care of you. System not dismissed if certain outcomes don"t their way: alienated political culture, apathetic political culture. Politics don"t play a major role in their lives. Detachment: types of political culture (pure ideal types) Some expectations may be unrealistically high bc of what neighbors are doing: parochial, subject, participants. People are not aware of the components and the system itself (including outputs; people not involved in input; people not seeing themselves as political actors)