Citizens and Community - Political Support in a Representative Democracy

Klappentext 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 the authors do so within a comparative context, their primary focus is on Canada because it is one of the world's oldest democracies and is a country that has experienced support problems that periodically have reached crisis proportion. Many of the problems facing Canada are more extreme examples of difficulties that have vexed other democracies. This study helps illuminate both the conditions under which democracies in general are able to sustain themselves and those under which they could flounder. Zusammenfassung The related subjects of political legitimacy and system support are key theoretical concerns of students of democracies. This book addresses these concerns through systematic analyses of the sources! distribution! and consequences of variations in support for key political institutions in one democracy! Canada. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The problem of political support; 2. Economy, society, self; 3. Democracy, political system, self; 4. Political support and its correlates; 5. Regional disaffection: Quebec and the West; 6. Elections and political support; 7. Causes and consequences of political support; 8. Political support in representative democracies; Appendix; References; Index.

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• Authors: Harold D. Clarke, Clarke Harold D., Allan Kornberg, Allan (Duke University Kornberg, Allan Clarke Kornberg, Kornberg Allan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521208321
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20832-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Canada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory