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Political Culture and Socialization

Political Culture and Socialization. MEXICO . SYSYEM FUNCTIONS of the Political System. Political Culture: Supportive . Mexicans are highly supportive of the political institutions that evolved from the Mexican Revolution Endorse the democratic principles of the Constitution of 1917.

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Political Culture and Socialization

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  1. Political Culture and Socialization MEXICO

  2. SYSYEM FUNCTIONS of the Political System

  3. Political Culture: Supportive • Mexicans are highly supportive of the political institutions that evolved from the Mexican Revolution • Endorse the democratic principles of the Constitution of 1917

  4. Political Culture: not supportive • Critical of government performance • Pessimistic about their ability to affect election outcomes • Growing distrust of Congress and the political parties

  5. POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION • Direct and indirect process of learning • Formative years of primary importance • Continuance throughout life

  6. Agents of Political Socialization: Early Influences • Family – Mexico: Loyalty highly valued • School – Mexico: secular schools • Religious institutions • Roman Catholic constrained • Protestant used to balance dominant Catholic ethos • Peer groups

  7. Adult Political Socialization: MEXICO • Personal encounters with government functionaries and the police • Violence • Drugs • Employment • Corruption

  8. Adult Political Socialization: MEXICO • Proliferation of popular movements • Mass media • Print media • Television

  9. Political Socialization through political participation • Political participation is of two broad types: • Ritualistic, regime-supportive activities • Voting and attending campaign rallies, for example • Petitioning or contacting of public officials to influence the allocation of some public good or service • By law voting is obligatory • Voting turnout • Closeness of 2006 presidential vote

  10. Trends in Contemporary Mexican Political Culture • Derive from environmental conditions and exposure to the historic events • The trends • Modernization • Parochial decreasing • Still many “subjects” • More participatory • Post-modern values in urban middle class • Self-determination & nationalism • Violence – a failed state? • Pull between economic advantages of NAFTA and cultural affinity with the rest of Latin America

  11. Recruiting the Political Elite: (Activity inside of the System Function ) • Who becomes one of Mexico’s political elite? • Recruited predominantly from the middle class • 1982-2000 mostly people born or raised in Mexico City • Postgraduate education, especially at elite foreign universities and in disciplines such as economics and public administration • Vincente Fox favored persons with nongovernmental experience and who had no political party affiliation. • Calderon had an MA in economics and public administration (latter from Harvard) and had extensive party experience. • Kinship ties • Political inbreeding?

  12. Keep in Mind • POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ARE DYNAMIC, NOT STATIC PHENOMENON

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