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Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton's theory to prevent autocracy.
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Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton's theory to prevent autocracy.

  • Morselli D University of Lausanne, Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research LIVES, Géopolis Building, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: davide.morselli@unil.ch.
  • Passini S University of Bologna, Department of Education "G. M. Bertin", via Filippo Re 6, 40126 Bologna, Italylogna, Italy.
  • 2015-10-15
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  • Social science research. - 2015
Authority
Citizenship
Democracy
Disobedience
Values
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Cooperative Behavior
Democracy
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Political Systems
Social Control, Formal
Social Justice
Social Values
Young Adult
English In Crimes of obedience, Kelman and Hamilton argue that societies can be protected by the degeneration of authority only when citizenship is based on a strong values orientation. This reference to values may be the weakest point in their theory because they do not explicitly define these values. Nevertheless, their empirical findings suggest that the authors are referring to specific democratic principles and universal values (e.g., equality, fairness, harmlessness). In this article, a composite index known as the value-oriented citizenship (VOC) index is introduced and empirically analysed. The results confirm that the VOC index discriminates between people who relate to authority based on values rather than based on their role or on rules in general. The article discusses the utility of the VOC index to develop Kelman and Hamilton's framework further empirically as well as its implications for the analysis of the relationship between individuals and authority.
Language
  • English
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https://fredi.hepvs.ch/global/documents/125967
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