The Civic Culture Transformed From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens [Paperback]

This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics.This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics, illustrating various manifestations of a transition from allegiant to assertive citizens.This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics, illustrating various manifestations of a transition from allegiant to assertive citizens.This book reevaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly assertive posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies  in terms of both accountable and effective governance.Foreword: pushing the envelope: analyzing the impact of values Marita R. Inglehart; 1. Political culture and value change Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel; Part I. Changing Values: 2. Value change over a third of a century: the evidence for generational replacement Paul R. Abramson; 3. The decline of deference revisited: evidence after twenty-five years Neil Nevitte; 4. Enlightening people: the spark of emancipative values Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno; Part II. Changing Images of Government: 5. Reassessing the civic-culture modellst