Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship

Question 1

Primordialist
Arguments

Answer 1

Treats culture as something that’s objective and inherited, fixed since “primordial” times

Question 2

Constructivist
Arguments

Answer 2

Treats culture as something that’s constructed or invented rather than inherited

Question 3

Cultural
Modernization
Theory

Answer 3

Predicts that socioeconomic development does not directly cause democracy
Instead, economic development produces certain cultural changes, such as the emergence of a civic culture, and it is these cultural changes that ultimately produce democratic form

Question 4

Civic Culture

Answer 4

A shared cluster of attitudes that are thought to promote democracy and democratic performance

Question 5

Social Desirability
Bias

Answer 5

The tendency of individuals to overreport “good behavior” and underreport “bad behavior”

Question 6

Differential Item
Functioning

Answer 6

Different items, such as particular survey questions, may function differently across individuals or groups, exists when individuals or groups understand survey items differently or evaluate survey items using different scales
Ex: What democracy means varies between different individuals and groups

Question 7

Traditional values vs.
secular-rational
values

Answer 7

Inglehart & Welzel
Two dimensions of cross-cultural variation
Traditional values or secular-rational values
Survival values or self-expression values

Question 8

Survival values vs.
self-expression
values

Answer 8

Inglehart & Welzel
Two dimensions of cross-cultural variation
Traditional values or secular-rational values
Survival values or self-expression values