Open AccessCULTURE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Author(s) -
Riccardo Pelizzo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
memlekettìk basķaru ža̋ne memlekettìk ķyzmet/gosudarstvennoe upravlenie i gosudarstvennaâ služba
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2959-0302
pISSN - 1994-2370
DOI - 10.52123/1994-2370-2021-558
Subject(s) - accountability , conceptualization , materialism , political culture , politics , democracy , secularism , sociology , government (linguistics) , political science , epistemology , law , philosophy , linguistics
The purpose of the present paper is to explore the relationship between the level of accountability and political culture. In doing so, we do not simply rely on a conceptualization of (political) culture as religion or religious denominations, but also as civicness, familism, secularism and post¬materialism. The results of our data analyses suggest two broad considerations: first, that culture matters and, second, that some aspects of culture are more important than others. Specifically our data analyses reveal that accountability is more sensitive to civicness, post-materialism, and years of democratic rule than it is to familism or the pervasiveness of Christianity. Finally, our data analyses reveal that these facets of (political) culture have a greater impact on accountability than some institutional factors such as the form of government.