Democrary and culture

The relation between democracy and culture

The relation between democracy and perceived subjective well-being
while controlling for other relevant determinants such as culture
measured by languages.There is a conduct a cross-national analysis
covering any countries. Contrasting existing empirical evidence, it'
observe a significant positive relationship between democracy and
happiness even when controlling for income and culture measured by
language and religion. The effect of democracy on happiness is
stronger in countries with an established democratic tradition.
Developments over the past forty years – the growth of an enormous
entertainment and media industry, the embrace of popular culture by
mainstream cultural institutions, the dominance of American popular
culture abroad, the institutionalization of the academic study of
popular culture – might seem to have rendered such questions outdated.
We do not think so. On the contrary, it strikes us how intensively
divided opinion on them remains. In the two decades following the
apparent triumph of the democratic idea in world politics we have seen
the rise of a renewed pessimism about the cultural possibilities of
democratic life in the West and around the world. There are such
concerns simply another form of American provincialism and we can
really say we understand the nature and effects of popular culture,
and the role it plays in modern democratic life.
So, I think democracy in Culture will bring together a group of
journalistic critics to discuss how they see the relation between high
and popular culture in their own domains today, and what forces for
democratization are at work in them.