Value Diversity and Support for Political Authorities in Canada

Autor: Nicki Doyle, Mebs Kanji
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: American Review of Canadian Studies. 39:191-223
ISSN: 1943-9954
0272-2011
DOI: 10.1080/02722010903138743
Popis: Canada is a diverse society with several historic divides, which makes democratic governance challenging. There are reasons to suppose that governing in Canada may be becoming even more complex, and this could have important implications for political support. It is also conceivable that the Canadian case may reflect some of the same challenges that could affect many other post-industrial democracies. Several structural and lifestyle changes have been altering the socio-cultural mix of Canadian society, possibly contributing to the expansion of various new value divides. Because values play a prominent role in shaping people's policy demands and political preferences, it is plausible that such a transformation could elevate the degree of intra-societal stress on Canada's political system and make governing more complex. In this essay, we have two main objectives. The first is to employ data from the Canadian World Values Surveys to explore the possibility that value diversity across various new value divi...
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