State-Building and Democracy-Building – Legitimacy and Trust: A Political Culture Approach to Political Stability

Abstract

Political culture proves its decisive role in shaping the forces able to drive polity dynamics by means of political participation, collective action, and political attitudes. Intensively employed with the explicit goal of explaining political phenomenology of democratization, research on political culture has got strong arguments for revising its relationship with polity studies in terms of democratic politics in the most diverse societies, cultures and geopolitical areas from post-colonial African to South-American or post-communist Eastern European societies. Viewed through the political culture lens, political stability addresses the dynamics of the state in institutional, ethnical or policy terms which reveal the role played by the relationship between political power and political culture. Legitimacy and trust – the basic paradigm of any contemporary democracy – thus turns into a fundamental equation of political stability in terms of political culture

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