Political Culture Under Institutional Pressure: How Institutional Change Transforms Early Socialization (political Evolution And Institutional Change)

Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts? This book seeks the answer by re-visiting an aged political generation growing up in historically unique interwar Estonia but living their adult lives in exile in Canada and Sweden or under foreign occupation in the then-Soviet Estonia. Some major conclusions drawn are that of dominant "cultural themes" being stable over time in all three groups, while cultural correspondence between country of origin and host society plays an essential role in explaining why the exile communities differ in their degree of genuine democratic citizenship Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Socialized Culture and Institutional Change: Introducing the Discussion....Pages 1-24 The Context of Early Socialization: Estonia between the Two Wars....Pages 25-47 Multicultural Canada and the Welfare State Sweden: Home to Estonians in Exile....Pages 49-68 The Exile Communities: A Surprising Gap in Civicness....Pages 69-82 Did Civic Commitment Survive Communism?....Pages 83-105 Political Culture under Institutional Pressure....Pages 107-120 Back Matter....Pages 121-189