<i>The Civic Culture</i>at 50: Change, Continuity and Challenges in the Federal Republic of Germany

Campbell, Ross; Conradt, David P.

doi:10.1080/09644008.2015.1060588

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“…See Dalton and Welzel (2014); Muller and Seligson (1994). See also Campbell and Conradt (2015). 5 For a more expansive approach to politics which extends to all areas of society in which power is generated and deployed, see Leftwich (2004: 1-22).…”

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Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2018)

Wickham

2019

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The protests of the Arab Spring sparked hope for a democratic breakthrough in a region long known for its durable systems of authoritarian rule, but optimism soon turned to disappointment. This article argues that the main problem with the post-Arab Spring narrative of failure and regression is that it equates democratization with regime change and places too great a causal burden on protests as the route to its achievement. It proposes that democratization can be understood as a multivalent process encompassing changes occurring at different registers, spurred by different causal mechanisms, and according to different time lines, rather than as a fixed package of changes that proceed in unilinear fashion from different variants of authoritarianism towards a common democratic finish line. Thinking about democratization differently alerts us to vectors of change we might otherwise fail to notice and enables us to move beyond the over-generalizations and over-simplifications that arise when we focus solely on (changes in) macro structures and relations of power.

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Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2018)

Wickham

2019

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“…The stability of these mean scores over time is unexpected in light of the famous difficulty of measuring this type of political attitude and cultural norm. Despite Max Kaase's memorable description of the challenge of adequately measuring this type of attitude as akin to 'nailing jelly to a wall' (Campbell & Conradt, 2015;Kaase 1983), the mean scores in Fig. 1 show structural stability of support for these citizenship indicators.…”

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“…Valid cross-national and longitudinal empirical studies of citizenship norms are notoriously difficult to conduct due to the lack of adequate data and research designs (Campbell & Conradt, 2015;Horne & Mollborn, 2020). Yet, a growing body of research clarifies the societal importance of using high-quality data and robust analytical techniques measure these constructs due to the impact of individuals' attitudes on subsequent political behavior and democratic functioning (e.g., Blais & Achen, 2019;Campbell & Wolbrecht, 2020;Claassen, 2020;Holbein & Hillygus, 2020;Kostelka & Blais, 2021).…”

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Changing citizenship norms among adolescents, 1999-2009-2016: A two-step latent class approach with measurement equivalence testing

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The evolution of citizenship norms is considered a driving force behind changing political processes in contemporary democracies. Competing expectations have emerged on this topic: a 'citizen engagement' argument anticipates an increase in norms that emphasize engaged and expressive values, while a 'democratic erosion' argument expects an increase in traditional and even authoritarian values. With a theoretical focus on individual-level citizenship norms, we analyze uniquely high-quality cross-national data on adolescents in 14 diverse countries in 1999, 2009 and 2016. We integrate recently developed innovations in latent class analysis that have not yet been implemented in applied research by using a two-step estimator for multilevel latent class models with measurement equivalence testing. The findings confirm expectations of the existence of both 'engaged' and 'duty-based' citizenship norms, but the stability in the prevalence of these norms contrasts expectations in the literature. The findings also identify additional normative types that do change in prevalence over time-namely, decreased prevalence of a 'mainstream' norm that parallels mean societal scores, along with increased prevalence of both a 'maximalist' high-scoring group and a 'subject' low-scoring group. The results regarding over-time change provide partial support for both the citizen engagement and democratic erosion arguments, and highlight the importance of robust measurement of these concepts to contribute to the debate of evolving global trends in citizenship norms. We conclude by discussing how the multilevel latent class modeling approach used in this article can be applied to related topics to better understand changing relationships between citizens and democratic systems.

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Persistence and renewal: the German Left Party's journey from outcast to opposition

Campbell

2017

Contemporary Politics

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The Civic Cultureat 50: Change, Continuity and Challenges in the Federal Republic of Germany

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2018)

Rethinking the Origins of Civic Culture and Why it Matters for the Study of the Arab World (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2018)

Changing citizenship norms among adolescents, 1999-2009-2016: A two-step latent class approach with measurement equivalence testing

Persistence and renewal: the German Left Party's journey from outcast to opposition

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