A political culture in exile

The Estonian inter-war generation in Canada and Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID11264449
AuthorsLi Bennich-Björkman, Li Bennich‐Björkman (Uppsala University, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume37
Issue1
Pages68-93
Publication date2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01629770500000271
OpenAlexW2077495570
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited30

This article focuses on cultural responses to institutional change. Through a value survey about civic values and perceptions of the state, predictions from rationalism and culturalism are tested on a generation of Estonians. Members of this inter-war generation were socialized during the first Estonian republic in the 1920s and 1930s, but then spent their adult lives in exile in Sweden and Canada. The survey, which was performed in 1998 when the respondents born between 1915–25 were well into their seventies and eighties, shows substantially stronger approval of democratic opportunities and public institutions among Canadian-Estonians in comparison to the Swedish-Estonians. Theoretically, the conclusion drawn is that a modification of the cultural theory resting on the importance of cultural correspondence between the originally socialized culture in the inter-war period and that of the host country is needed in order to make sense of this cultural response pattern

Culturalism · Democracy · Estonian · Period (music · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks

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