POLI 222 Midterm: Paul Nesbitt-Larking Reading Notes - The Problem with Americanization

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 222
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

Paul nesbitt-larking, canadian political culture: the problem of. Political culture: particular pattern of orientation to political action in which a system is embedded. As opposed to american culture, canadian culture keeps a balance between the two. 3 different approaches: fragment approach: hartz, mcrae, horowitz, historical development approach: lipset, empirical attitudinal surveys approach: adams. White settler societies were established by ideologically homogenous and cohesive colonies of europeans. Founding characteristics = ideological parameters for the succeeding generations. Populist character of the new deal era. Importance of feudalism in the french-canadian segment as well as loyalty to the crown in the. Lipset: profound differences between american and canadian political culture. Canada is more class aware, elitist, law-abiding, statist, collectivity-oriented, group- oriented. 19th to 20th century, the usa remains the extreme example of a classically liberal or. Usa rejected ascriptive elitism, mercantilism, noblesse oblige and communitarianism: attitudinal survey approach.