POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ronald Inglehart, Robert D. Putnam, Authoritarian Personality

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 200
• Professor: Manuel Balan

Document Summary

Changing values among western publics from 1970 to 2006. ronald inglehart. Through primary political socialization (family, school, society) and through secondary political socialization (the regime and political system, as a consequence of the ways in which people experience it) National history and habits, authoritarian personality (example of goldhagen who studied the roots of antisemitism in germany) > problems with this: descriptive, hard to compare, ethnocentric, national identities become less clear with globalization: behavioralist school (inglehart) > looks at social and political attitudes and behavioural of individuals (through surveys) Economic changes (postmodernization) value change social/political change. New policy priorities for government) new demands for participation beyond elections: social capital school (putnam) Specifying cultural aspects that matter for democracy: social capital . > it is not what you know, but who you know. > social capital: idea that social networks have value. > social capital, not institutions, make democracy work.