Citizens and Community by Allan Kornberg, Harold D. Clarke - 9780521208321

Citizens and CommunityPolitical Support in a Representative Democracy\nAuthor(s): Allan Kornberg, Harold D. Clarke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521208321, 978-0521208321\nSynopsis\nThe related subjects of political legitimacy and system support are key theoretical concerns of students of democratic societies. They have received very little scholarly attention, however, because of the conceptual and methodological complexities they engender. In this book the authors address these concerns through systematic multivariate analyses of the sources, distribution, and consequences of variations in citizen support for key political objects in one such society, Canada. Although the authors do so within a comparative context, their primary focus is on Canada because it is one of the world's oldest democracies and is a country that has experienced support problems that periodically have reached crisi.