POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: First-Past-The-Post Voting, Statism, Egalitarianism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Donna Schatz

Document Summary

It can be defined as the sum total of the politically relevant values, beliefs, attitudes, and orientations in a society (dyck, 2004, p. 209). The political culture of the united states is often described as classical liberal while the social democratic ideology is a component of the political culture of the scandinavian countries. Empire loyalists brought traditional conservative values to canada along with liberal values characteristic of the american political culture. The 2 orientations of liberalism and conservatism, he suggests, allowed a third element of socialism to evolve. Canada has been and is a more class-aware, elitist, law-abiding, statist, collectivity- oriented, and particularistic (group-oriented) society than the united states (lipset, Law-abiding: peaceful, orderly deferential toward authority, cautious, elitist, moralistic. It is said that canadians have a general respect toward the law, judges, police, religious leaders, and many others in authority: egalitarianism.