Can Tocqueville Karaoke?: Global Contrasts of Citizen Participation, the Arts and Development
Terry Nichols Clark
Language: English
Pages: 328
ISBN: B00MDJKE8Y
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This volume questions the importance of arts and culture and their possible impact on politics and the economy. Chapters outline a new framework for analysis of democratic participation and economic growth and explore how these new patterns work around the world. The ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and Joseph Schumpeter and Jane Jacobs are analysed.
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The Politics of Collective Violence
Preference Pollution: How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
Leaders' Personalities and the Outcomes of Democratic Elections
leaders for centuries around the world, especially by young male students, talented, independent, thoughtful, and critical. Bohemian? Not necessarily. The next logical question: is this specific to Asia? Do we not have student protests, union members, civil rights organizers, and others who actively organized against establishment policies and potentially encourage delegitimizing the establishment through participation in their organized activities? These are widespread, even though they may be a
to a questioning of what these organizations are as a whole, and what their impact might be as a whole, and how and when they can complement one another. Some of these questions are purely technical. Similarly, there are possibly economies of scale in some areas, but the “possibility,” even in more technical service areas often falls short of the technical expectations. Many small organizations, Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) with a technical focus, were created separate from the state that
voluntary associations are again insignificant, while arts activities are significant and negative (Model 3). This is particularly interesting considering that the UMP and Greens communes appear to have quite similar demographic profiles. Both voluntary associations and arts activities are strong positive predictors of higher vote percentages for the PS (Table 5C, Models 2 and 3). Lastly, voluntary associations negatively predict FRN voting, while arts activities appear to be insignificant (Table
cultural strategy positively influences the attraction of the creative class, notwithstanding other factors related to the social climate (such as tolerance or diversity). H2: Orientation toward a more instrumental strategy positively influences local economic development, regardless of other conventional factors (human capital, technological industries) or the presence of the creative class. H3: Those cities that combine an instrumental strategy with the presence of a creative class will have
of national pride: military marches, parades of strong political leaders, church music, and 12 TERRY NICHOLS CLARK paintings of religious icons inspire a duty-based citizenship. More passive arts activities are common, like visiting museums that feature classics. An Asian trope is the proper 20-year-old daughter in a traditional family. She is politically inspired by ironic and teasing social media, blogs, comics, anime films, and videos of rap songs like Gangnam Style. Her participation may