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Citizens and Community - Political Support in a Representative Democracy (Paperback)
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Citizens and Community - Political Support in a Representative Democracy (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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The related subjects of political legitimacy and system support are
key theoretical concerns of students of democratic societies. They
have received very little scholarly attention, however, because of
the conceptual and methodological complexities they engender. In
this book, the authors address these concerns through systematic
multivariate analyses of the sources, distribution and consequences
of variations in citizen support for key political objects in one
such society, Canada. Although they do so within a comparative
context, their primary focus is on Canada because it is not only
one of the world's oldest democracies, but is a country that has
experienced support problems that periodically have reached crisis
proportions. Many of the problems facing Canada are extreme
examples of difficulties that have vexed other democracies and this
study helps illuminate both the conditions under which democracies
in general are able to sustain themselves and those under which
they could flounder. The authors demonstrate that political support
has its origins in people's political socialization experiences and
their judgments about the operation of key political and economic
institutions and processes. They find that political support is not
"of a piece" and that average citizens are able to distinguish
among and ascribe different degrees of support to key political
objects such as Parliament, the bureaucracy, the judiciary,
parties, the system of federalism, and the national political
community itself.
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