GOVT Comparative Political Culture

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1 ABN GOVT 4101 Comparative Political Culture Semester 1, 2011 UNIT OF STUDY OUTLINE Instructor: Visiting Professor Pippa Norris Room: 443, Merewether (HO4) Website: Consultation Hours: Mondays 2pm-3pm by appointment in my office. There will be a signup sheet on my door to reserve a time slot during the semester Course website: https//elearning.sydney.edu.au Lectures: Commencing Week 1 Tuesdays 2pm-4pm Merewether Seminar Room 398 1

2 Course Synopsis What is political culture and how can we best understand the predominant norms, values, attitudes and beliefs in societies worldwide? Are processes of generational change transforming attitudes towards sexuality and gender equality in Europe? Is there such a phenomenon as Asian values? Is there universal support for democracy, even in autocratic societies and in Arab states? Is religion gradually fading in importance or experiencing a contemporary resurgence? Do cultural differences over fundamental values lie at the heart of any revival of Islamophobia? And is Australian culture part of an Anglosphere (Bennett), with common values shared with Canada, the UK, the United States, Ireland and New Zealand? To explore these sorts of issues, this unit provides the theoretical knowledge and analytical skills to understand political culture in global perspective. The unit has three major sections: (i) Theories and methods for studying and comparing political culture; (ii) Major themes in the comparative study of political culture, including understanding support for democracy and trust in government, religiosity and secularization, sexuality and gender equality, and globalization); and (iii) Theories and evidence about the consequences and impact of political culture. The course will be invaluable for any seeking to develop familiarity with the major theories of political culture and the growing array of cross national surveys. Course Aims and Objectives This course aims to sharpen knowledge about comparative political culture, to improve skills in the methods and techniques of comparative politics, to provide an overview of the major normative and empirical debates in the research literature, and to develop awareness of the practical implications of political culture and value change. Classes will also introduce you to some of the major resources available for research on these topics. Course Schedule 2011 # Tues 2pm Class topic 1 1 Mar Introduction and course over view 2 8 Mar The globalization of cross national surveys CULTURAL ISSUES AND DEBATES 3 15 Mar Modernization theories of political culture 4 22 Mar Support for democracy and trust in government 5 29 Mar Attitudes towards sexuality, the family, and gender equality 6 5 Apr Guest lecture (Assign #1) 7 12 April Guest lecture 8 19 Apr Religion and secularization 9 3 May Cosmopolitan attitudes towards globalization (Assign #2) CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES May Inglehart and Welzel: Does value change drive democratization? May Putnam: Does social capital generate good governance? May Huntington: Is there a clash of civilizations? May Conclusions: Australian culture in comparative perspective (Assign #3) Note: Guest lecture for the classes on Tuesday 5 th and 12 th April, due to prior engagements. The Easter vacation is April th. 2

3 Required reading Essential articles can be downloaded from the library. No reading packets will be used. Note that the DOI listed in the syllabus is the static address of articles. Type this into your browser search and this should link directly to the article source. You will need to login first to the Sydney University library system to get full access and download. A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique identifier for an individual object on the web, e.g. a journal article, so that a permanent URL can be created to that object. The supplementary selected bibliography and a list of online resources provide resources to supplement the core (required) readings. Further materials are available via the class website at and at Assignments 1. Paper. 30%. Cultural theories and value change. Due: 5 April. 2,000 word essay. Pick one of the following topics. Explain and critically evaluate Inglehart s theory of cultural change in the light of trends and cross national patterns of public opinion in one global region. What are the key challenges of measurement in cross national survey research? What techniques can help to minimize or overcome these problems? Discuss in the light of illustrations from one cultural theme covered by the class. Is support for democracy now universal worldwide? What explains changing attitudes towards the family, sex roles, and gender equality? Is religiosity dying or experiencing a revival? 2. Briefing memo: 15% Due 3 May. Two sided memo answering the following question: Is there a distinctive Australian culture? Select ONE of the major cross national surveys, and compare evidence on one of the thematic topics covered in the course to see whether Australian attitudes are similar or whether they differ significantly from comparable affluent post industrial societies. Memos will be compared and discussed in class workgroups. 3. Paper. 30%. Cultural consequences: Due 31 May. 2,000 word essay. Pick one of the following topics for your paper: Is these widespread support for globalization in Europe or any evidence of a backlash? Analyze in relation to European attitudes towards (i) free trade and labor markets, (ii) global governance, or (iii) feelings of nationalism and national identity. Does social capital, including dense social networks and rich reservoirs of social trust, help to explain why some democratic governments succeed while others fail? The clash of civilizations focuses on issues of eros not demos. Discuss the evidence concerning this claim. Is culture a necessary or sufficient condition for successful processes of democratization? 4. Seminar presentations and participation. 25% total You are asked to write one page memo presentations for two seminar sessions during the semester. You should produce sufficient copies of the memo to distribute to each participant. The short memo (2 3 pages) should lead and structure the discussion, ask relevant questions, and provoke group interaction. 3

4 Assignments and Grading Procedures Required attendance: Participants are expected to keep up with the required readings and to attend seminars every Tuesday. The number of readings varies across classes; some are heavier than others. Grading policy: Assignments will be awarded a percentage grade and the final distribution of grades will be curved across the whole class. Unless the assignment grade is 65% or below (fail), no regrade requests will be allowed. Late policy: Barring an extraordinary excuse recorded in the Online System Portal, all late assignments will be marked down two percent for each day following the due date. A printed copy of each assignment is due to be handed in to the departmental office by 4pm on the specified dates. Supplementary Readings: For ALL assignments you need to go beyond the required readings by drawing upon a wide range of other materials from the research literature to support claims and arguments. The supplementary bibliography provides an indication of further resources and many others can be located using the library and the ISI Web of Science Social Science Citation Index. It is not sufficient to rely solely upon unpublished internet sources. Citations: You are recommended to read and cite at least ten publications for each essay assignment. Try to absorb the key points and recapitulate them in your own words, rather than using lengthy direct quotations. You should use citations to support controversial claims, to attribute arguments and ideas to their original source, to provide sources for factual statements, and to demonstrate an awareness of the main arguments in the research literature. References should follow a consistent style. You are recommended to use the sequential numeric endnote format, gathered at the end of each paper, where you give details about the author s first and last name, the date of publication, the title, the publication place and publisher. The aim is to let readers locate the original works which you have read. Examples are as follows. For other details, see The Chicago Manual of Style Online. o E.g. Articles o o o o o 1. Ken Benoit Electoral laws as political consequences: Explaining the origins and change of electoral institutions. Annual Review of Political Science 10: E.g. Books: 2 Arend Lijphart Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty Seven Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press. E.g. Online website: 3. Freedom House. Freedom Around the World,

5 Guidelines for the Assessment of Honours Theses Honours III Work barely adequate at Honours standard, with significant defects in several of the qualities expected at this level. Examples of such defects include insufficient or too narrowly focused research, unpersuasive interpretation, argument that suffers from weaknesses in clarity or structure, and writing that exhibits serious problems with grammar and expression. Honours II (ii) Adequate reading, research, understanding and presentation of the subject area, relevant theories and methodologies. Some evidence of ability to think theoretically as well as empirically, and to conceptualise and problematise issues. Weaknesses include gaps in research, important unresolved problems and inconsistencies within the argument, deficiencies in clarity, and stylistic lapses. Honours II (i) Note: The award of Honours at this level (and above) suggests that a student has the capacity to pursue postgraduate research work Sound grasp of the subject area, with extensive reading and research, ability to use methodology and theory, evidence of careful and thorough discovery and original use of appropriate sources, competent analysis and evaluation of material, ability to present material clearly and succinctly with a well thought out argument Demonstrates breadth and initiative in research and reading, complex understanding and some original analysis. Makes a good attempt to get behind the evidence and engage with its underlying assumptions, and takes a critical, interrogative stance in relation to political argument and interpretation. Properly documented, with writing characterised by style, clarity, and some creativity. Honours I 80 to 84 Demonstrates general excellence in the subject area without major error or naiveté, breadth of knowledge, clear familiarity with and ability to use appropriate methodologies and theories, and clear evidence of some independence of thought in the subject area. Superior written style, clarity and creativity. 85 to 89 First Class quality (as defined above) but with greater evidence of intellectual independence and more originality of thought. A mark in the upper range of this band demonstrates a command of the field both broad and deep, with independent intellectual argument and a significant degree of original thought. (A mark in the high 80s is around the mark required for an Australian Postgraduate Award at this University.) 90 and above. Outstanding First Class quality of Medal standard, demonstrating independent thought throughout, a flair for the subject, and research achievement of a kind that produces at least some work of PhD standard or of potentially publishable standard in a serious academic journal. (A mark of 90+ is necessary but not sufficient for the award of a Medal.) 5

6 Advice to Students Deadlines: Written work must be delivered as a printed hardcopy with a cover sheet to the Government and International Relations Departmental office by 4pm Tuesday on the due date specified. Collaboration: Students must acknowledge any collaboration and its extent in all submitted written work. This does not apply to discussion with others about general approaches to the assignment or assistance with proofreading. Collaboration in the completion of examinations is always prohibited. Plagiarism: University policies on academic honesty and plagiarism can be found at: All students are required to submit a signed statement of compliance with all work submitted to the University for assessment, presentation or publication. A statement of compliance certifying that no part of the Work constitutes a breach of this Policy must be in the form of: a. a University assignment cover sheet; b. a University electronic form; or c. a University written statement. All homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, and examinations submitted to a course are expected to be the student s own work. Students should always take great care to distinguish their own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources. The term sources includes not only primary and secondary material published in print or on line, but also information and opinions gained directly from other people. The responsibility for learning the proper forms of citation lies with the individual student. Quotations must be placed properly within quotation marks and must be cited fully. In addition, all paraphrased material must be acknowledged completely. Whenever ideas or facts are derived from a student s reading and research or from a student s own writings, the sources must be indicated. Students who are in any doubt about the preparation of academic work should consult me before the work is prepared or submitted. Students with disabilities: Students needing academic adjustments or accommodations because of a documented disability must speak with the professor by the end of the second week of the term. All discussions will remain confidential. 6

7 Required readings # Date Class topic 1 Introduction and course overview No reading required 2 The globalization of cross national surveys a) Norris, Pippa The Globalization of Comparative Public Opinion Research. For the Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics Eds. Neil Robinson and Todd Landman. London: Sage Publications. Available at b) Heath, Anthony, Fisher, Stephen and Smith, Shawna (2005) The globalization of public opinion research, Annual Review of Political Studies 8: DOI: /annurev.polsci c) Heath Anthony, Martin J, and T. Spreckelsen Cross national comparability of survey attitude measures. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 21(3): DOI: /ijpor/edp034 d) Online resource: Limited Version Gallup WorldView.aspx 3 Modernization theories of cultural change a) Welzel, Christopher, Ronald Inglehart and Hans Dieter Klingemann The theory of human development: A cross cultural analysis. European Journal of Political Research 42(3): DOI: / b) Wang, Zhengxu X Postmodern values in seven Confucian societies: Political consequences of changing world views. Japanese Journal of Political Science 8 (3): DOI: /S c) Online resource: 4 Support for democracy and trust in government a) Tessler, Mark and E. Gao E Gauging Arab Support for Democracy Journal of Democracy 16 (3): DOI: /jod b) Pippa Norris Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited. New York Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4. c) Bratton, Michael Anchoring The "D Word" In Africa. Journal of Democracy 21(4): d) Online resource: 5 Values and attitudes towards sexuality and gender equality a) Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris Rising Tide. New York Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2. b) Thornton, Arland and Linda Young DeMarco Four decades of trends in attitudes toward family issues in the United States: The 1960s through the 7

8 1990s. Journal of Marriage and the Family 63(4): c) Online resource: data/ 6 Guest lecture: Topic TBA 7 Guest lecture: Topic TBA 8 Religion and secularization a) Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart Sacred and Secular. New York Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3. b) Stark, Rodney and Lawrence Iannaccone A supply side reinterpretation of the secularization of Europe. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 33: c) Online resource: ISSP 9 Cosmopolitan attitudes towards globalization a) Robert Holton Globalization s Cultural Consequences. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. 570: doi: / b) Martin S. Edwards, Public opinion regarding economic and cultural globalization: evidence from a cross national survey. Review of International Political Economy 13 (4): Doi: / c) Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart Cosmopolitan Communications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2 and 6. d) Online resource: Eurobarometer 10 Inglehart and Welzel: Does value change drive democratization? a) Inglehart, Ronald and Christopher Welzel Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy. Perspectives on Politics 8 (2): DOI: /S b) Seligson, Mitchell. A The renaissance of political culture or the renaissance of the ecological fallacy? Comparative Politics. 34 (3): c) Fails, Matthew D. and Heather N. Pierce Changing Mass Attitudes and Democratic Deepening. Political Research Quarterly 63(1): DOI: / d) Teorell, Jan and Axel Hadenius Democracy without democratic values: A rejoinder to Welzel and Inglehart. Studies In Comparative International Development 41(3): Putnam: Does social capital generate good governance? a) Putnam, Robert D Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. Journal of Democracy 6:

9 b) Putnam, Robert D E pluribus unum: Diversity and community in the twenty first century the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture. Scandinavian Political Studies 30(2): DOI: /j x c) Dietlind Stolle and Marc Hooghe Review Article: Inaccurate, Exceptional, One Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate about the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies. B.J.Pol.S. 35: DOI: /S Huntington: Is there a clash of civilizations? a) Huntington, Samuel P The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs. 72(3): b) Inglehart, Ronald and Pippa Norris Muslims and the West: A clash of civilizations? Foreign Policy. March/April: Conclusions: Australian culture in comparative perspective a) Wilson, Shaun, Gabrielle Meagher, Rachel Gibson, David Denemark, Mark Western (eds.), Australian Social Attitudes: The First Report. UNSW Press. b) Rodney Smith, Equality, Chapter 5 in Australian Political Culture, Sydney: Pearson Education, c) Online resource: 9

10 University Student Support Services If you are experiencing difficulties with your studies, or if you want general assistance, there are a number of University support services for students. Please also speak with me rather than missing lectures, seminars, or failing to complete all assessment tasks. Disability Services Level 5, Jane Foss Russell Building, G20 City Road (beside the Wentworth Building), Ph: (enquiries) disability.services@sydney.edu.au Web: sydney.edu.au/stuserv/disability/index.shtml Disability Services is the principal point of contact and support for students with disabilities. It works closely with administration and academic departments of the University to ensure that reasonable adjustments relating to teaching and assessment are made for students with disabilities, whilst maintaining the academic integrity and core requirements of the individual courses. Counselling Service Level 5, Jane Foss Russell Building, G20 City Road (beside the Wentworth Building), Ph: counselling.service@sydney.edu.au Web: sydney.edu.au/stuserv/counselling The Counselling Service aims to help students fulfill their academic, individual and social goals through professional counselling and workshops. The Service provides short term, problem focused counselling to promote psychological wellbeing and to help students develop effective and realistic coping strategies. Learning Centre Level 7 Education Building A35 Ph: learning.centre@sydney.edu.au Web: Provides free workshops on a range of subjects including study skills, academic reading and writing, oral communication, and examination skills. The centre also offers programs specifically designed for students from a non English speaking background. Resource guidelines for referencing, essay structuring & writing are available on their website at: Online learning assistance This is available via the Write Site, which offers modules on grammar, sources and structure to help students develop their academic and professional writing skills. Each module provides descriptions of common problems in academic and professional writing and strategies for addressing them. Students can view samples of good writing and also do some practice activities in error correction. For further information visit the Write Site at 10

11 Supplementary select bibliography (choose some for your written assignments) Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. The American Economic Review 91 (5): Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern Income Distribution. The Quarterly Journal of Econometrics 118: Albrow, Martin, Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, Monroe Price and Mary Kaldor (Eds.) Global Civil Society 2007/8: Communicative Power and Democracy. London: Sage. Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. Eds The Civic Culture Revisited. Boston: Little Brown. Anderson, Christopher J., and Christine A. Guillory Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy. American Political Science Review 91(1): Anderson, Christopher Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies. New York: M.E. Sharpe. Beck, Nathaniel and Jonathan Katz What to do (and not to do) with Time Series Cross Section Data. American Political Science Review. 89: Beck, Nathaniel and Jonathan Katz Nuisance vs. substance: Specifying and estimating timeseries cross sectional models. In Political Analysis Ed. J. Freeman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Bennett, James C. (2004). The Anglosphere challenge: why the English speaking nations will lead the way in the twenty first century. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN Bratton, Michael and Nicholas van de Walle Democratic Experiments in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bratton, Michael and Robert Mattes Support for democracy in Africa: Intrinsic or Instrumental. British Journal of Political Science 31(3): Bulmer, M. (1986) The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bulmer, M. (1993) Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys and Censuses in the Third World. London: Routledge. Bulmer, M. (1998) The problem of exporting social survey research, The American Behavioral Scientist 42(2): Bulmer, M., Bales, K. and Sklar, K.K. (eds) (1992) The social survey in historical perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chu, Yun han, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin How East Asians View Democracy. Columbia University Press. 11

12 Ciftci, Sabri Modernization, Islam, or Social Capital: What Explains Attitudes Toward Democracy in the Muslim World? Comparative Political Studies 43(11): Citrin, Jack Comment: The Political Relevance of Trust in Government. American Political Science Review 68: Converse, Jean M. (1987) Survey research in the United States: Roots and emergence Berkeley: University of California Press Craig, Stephen C The Malevolent Leaders: Popular Discontent in America. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press. Crozier, Michel, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission. New York: New York University Press. Curtis, J.E, E.G. Grabb and D.E. Baer Voluntary association membership in 15 countries a comparative analysis. American Sociological Review. 57(2): Dahl, Robert A A Preface to Democratic Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dahl, Robert A Democracy and its Critics. New Haven: Yale University Press. Dahl, Robert A On Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press. Dasgupta, Partha and Ismail Serageldin. Eds Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective. The World Bank: Washington DC. David Campbell and Robert D. Putnam American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Simon & Schuster. Davie, Michael Anglo Australian Attitudes. Pimlico. Denemark, David, Gabrielle Meagher, Shaun Wilson, Mark Western, and Timothy Phillips (eds.) Australian Social Attitudes 2: Citizenship, Work and Aspirations. UNSW Press. Diamond, Larry and Marc F. Plattner Eds. How People View Democracy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. Donsbach, Wolfgang and Michael Traugott (2008) The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research. List of resources. Doyle, Michael W Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace. American Political Science Review, 99: Easterly, William, and Ross Levine Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development. Journal of Monetary Economic 50:3 39. Easterly, William The Elusive Quest for Growth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Easterly, William The White Man s Burden. New York: Penguin. Easton, David A Reassessment of the Concept of Political Support. British Journal of Political Science, 5: Engerman, Stanley L. and Kenneth L. Sokoloff Debating the role of institutions in political and economic development: Theory, history, and findings. Annual Review of Political Science 11: Foley, Michael and Bob Edwards Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and Social Capital in Comparative Perspective. American Behavioral Scientist. 42(1):

13 Foley, Michael and Bob Edwards Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and Social Capital in Comparative Perspective. American Behavioral Scientist. 42(1): Fuchs, Dieter, Giovanna Guidorossi, and Palle Svensson Support for the Democratic System. In Citizens and the State, eds. Klingemann, Hans Dieter and Fuchs, Dieter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Geer, John (ed.) (2004) Public Opinion and Polling around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio. Gerritsen, Debby and Marcel Lubbers Unknown is unloved? Diversity and inter population trust in Europe. European Union Politics 11( 2): Doi: / Glaeser, Edward L., R. La Porta, F. Lopez de Silanes, A. Shleifer Do institutions cause growth? Journal of Economic Growth 9 (3): SEP 2004 Harrison, Laurence and Samuel Huntington Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books Paperback. Heath Anthony, Martin J, and T. Spreckelsen Cross national comparability of survey attitude measures. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 21(3): DOI: /ijpor/edp034 Hooghe, Marc and Dietlind Stolle. Eds Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Hsiao, Cheng M Analysis of panel data. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Inglehart Ronald, Roberto Foa, Christopher Peterson, and Christian Welzel Development, freedom, and rising happiness: A global perspective ( ). Perspectives on Psychological Science 3(4): Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence. New York: Cambridge University Press. Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel Political culture and democracy: Analyzing cross level linkages. Comparative Politics. 36(1): p Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization. Foreign Affairs 88(2): Inglehart, Ronald and Christopher Welzel Political culture and democracy Analyzing crosslevel linkages. Comparative Politics 36 (1): Inglehart, Ronald and Christopher Welzel Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence. New York: Cambridge University Press. Inglehart, Ronald and Christopher Welzel Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy. Perspectives On Politics 8 (2): DOI: /S Inglehart, Ronald and Gabriela Catterberg Trends in political action: The developmental trend and the post honeymoon decline. International Journal Of Comparative Sociology 43( 3 5): Inglehart, Ronald and Pippa Norris Rising Tide. New York: Cambridge University Press. Inglehart, Ronald, and Paul Abramson Economic security and value change. American Political Science Review 88: Inglehart, Ronald, Basàñez, Miguel, Dìez Medrano, Jaime, Halman, Loek and Luijkx, Ruud (eds) Human Beliefs and Values: A cross cultural sourcebook. Mexico: Siglo XXI Editores. 13

14 Inglehart, Ronald Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Inglehart, Ronald Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press Inglehart, Ronald The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Inglehart, Ronald How solid is mass support for democracy: and how do we measure it? PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (1): János Kornai, Bo Rothstein, and Susan Rose Ackerman. Eds Creating Social Trust in Post Socialist Transitions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Jowell, Roger How comparative is comparative research? American Behavioral Scientist, 42, Jowell, Roger, Brook, Lindsay and Dowds, Lizanne (eds) (1993) International Social Attitudes: The 10th British Social Attitudes Report. Dartmouth. Jowell, Roger, Caroline Roberts, Rory Fitzgerald and Gillian Eva. Eds Measuring Attitudes Cross nationally. London: Sage Publications. Kaase, Max, and Kenneth Newton Beliefs in Government. New York: Oxford University Press. Karram, Azza Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers. Revised Edition. IDEA: Stockholm. Keck, Margaret E. and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Knutsen C.H Measuring Effective Democracy. International Political Science Review 31 (2): DOI: / Krishna A How does social capital grow? A seven year study of villages in India. Journal of Politics 69 (4): Kuechler, Manfred (1987) The utility of surveys for cross national research, Social Science Research, 16, Kuechler, Manfred (1998) The survey method: An indispensable tool for social science research everywhere? American Behavioral Scientist 42(2): Lane Kenworthy and Melissa Malami Gender Inequality in Political Representation: A Worldwide Comparative Analysis. Social Forces 78(1): Licht, Amir N., Chanan Goldschmidt and Shalom H. Schwartz Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance. Journal of Comparative Economics 35: doi: /j.jce Lipset, Seymour M., and William C. Schneider The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind, rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Lipset, Seymour Martin, Kyoung Ryung Seong and John Charles Torres A comparative analysis of the social requisites of democracy. International Social Science Journal. 45(2): Lipset, Seymour Martin Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy. American Political Science Review. 53:

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