1. Political Culture Citizen attitudes and orientations and their impact

2. Political Culture Attitudes and orientations toward politics: how a group of people (e.g a social class, an ethnic group, a region, or a nation) think about themselves about others about how they are governed about how they ought to be governed…..

3. Political culture v. ideology Different from an ideology or a religion: Not a (logically) constrained or integrated belief system, but rather sets of attitudes or orientations distributed among a given population these can be evenly or unevenly distributed, widely or narrowly held a society can have distinct subcultures

4. Common to distinguish among: Homogeneous v. fragmented political cultures mass v. elite political culture: –mass political culture: attitudes and orientations toward politics held by the population as a whole –elite political culture: orientations held by those who have (or are likely to hold) power

5. Describing political cultures How would you describe the political culture of any or all of the following? MUN students Newfoundlanders Canadians Americans

6. Sources of political culture: FamilyMedia Friends SchoolsEconomy Affiliations, Memberships Polity Region, Country Global society

7. What shapes political culture? Different views: Family, school, society through primary political socialization The regime and political system, as a consequence of the ways in which people experience it – secondary political socialization

8. Different views: Political culture Society Experience with political system Political Culture

9. Some questions and problems: Difference between political culture and national character? How can we characterize political culture(s) What difference does political culture make? Do you need a democratic political culture in order to sustain democracy? –If so, what constitutes a democratic political culture? Is it sufficient for elites to be committed to democracy or must ordinary citizens be so committed as well?

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