What a Difference Political Culture Makes
While democracy is developing and strengthening in more and more countries across the world, there may be some lessons to learn from older, established democracies. Democracy does not equal democracy – different forms and philosophical foundations shape different political cultures. Different political cultures favor different practices and outcomes. The political and civic leadership in evolving democracies may possibly have a chance to push things in one or another direction by looking at practices and outcomes in other countries.
- Tags:
- Middle East and North Africa
- The World Region
- Governance
- Democracy
- Deliberation
- deliberative democracy
- participatory democracy
- Adversarial Democracy
- Interests
- collaboration
- political culture
- Diana Mutz
- Hearing the Other Side
- Uri Ben-Eliezer
- French Revolution
- English Puritan Revolution
- Glorious Revolution
- John Locke
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Republican Democracy
- Liberal Democracy
- Democratic Practices
- Arab Spring
- Evolving Democracies