eprintid: 2215
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2014-06-27 12:39:45
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Ticchi, Davide
creators_name: Verdier, Thierry
creators_name: Vindigni, Andrea
creators_id: davide.ticchi@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
creators_id: andrea.vindigni@imtlucca.it
title: Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
ispublished: pub
subjects: HB
subjects: JA
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: discussion_paper
keywords: Keywords: political culture, socialization, democracy, military, nondemocracy, political
economy, political transitions, institutional consolidation, path dependency   -   JEL Classification: P16, H11, H26, H41 
abstract: We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state variable of the model along with formal political institutions. We focus on two agencies of political socialization: the family and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their children. The state invests resources in public indoctrination infrastructures. The model displays two-way complementarities between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are committed to democracy. Otherwise the model features persistent fluctuations in and out of democracy as well as cycles of political culture. Importantly, the politico-economic equilibrium may exhibit a persistent (although declining) incongruence between political institutions and political culture, which tends to evolve more slowly than formal institutions.
date: 2013-06
date_type: published
number: 7741
publisher: IZA Discussion paper
pages: 66
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
official_url: http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7441
citation:   Ticchi, Davide and Verdier, Thierry and Vindigni, Andrea  Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values.  Discussion Paper  #7741/2013    IZA Discussion paper         
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2215/1/dp7441.pdf