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What do citizens expect from a democracy? An invariance test and comparison between East and West Germany with the ISSP 2004
Was erwarten Bürger von der Demokratie? Ein Invarianztest und Vergleich zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland anhand des ISSP 2004
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Abstract One of the prerequisites for a functioning democracy is that its citizens support by and large its democratic system. However, such support cannot be taken for granted and should be monitored. Furthermore, different people may have different perceptions, expectations, and understanding of the concep... view more
One of the prerequisites for a functioning democracy is that its citizens support by and large its democratic system. However, such support cannot be taken for granted and should be monitored. Furthermore, different people may have different perceptions, expectations, and understanding of the concept of democracy. This may be especially true for citizens socialized in different political systems like those in Eastern and Western Europe before the fall of the iron curtain, where the concept of democracy and the rights of citizens in a democracy were communicated in quite different ways. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
theory of democracy; old federal states; value-orientation; Federal Republic of Germany; civil rights; political attitude; New Federal States; citizen; conception of democracy; transformation; ISSP; democracy; political participation
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
quantitative empirical
Collection Title
Methods, theories, and empirical applications in the social sciences: Festschrift for Peter Schmidt
Editor
Salzborn, Samuel; Davidov, Eldad; Reinecke, Jost
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Springer VS
City
Wiesbaden
Page/Pages
p. 213-219
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18898-0_26
ISBN
978-3-531-17130-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed