Abstract
This thesis aims to replicate and extend Muller and Seligson's model presented in the article Civic Culture and Democracy: A Question of Causal Relationships, in which the authors analyse the relationships between civic culture and change in democracy, concluding that civic culture, along with income inequality and ethnolinguistic fractionalization, influences democracy. This presentation first presents research into and theories concerning the relationship between civic culture and democracy, and the main academic texts analysing this topic.
Muller and Seligson's article is described as well: the presentation presents their results and their final macro-micro model. The possible weaknesses of their model are then discussed from the point of view of several authors and from the point of view of the author of this thesis.In the second, analytical part, Muller and Seligson's model is replicated for more recent time periods.
The model is then extended to other countries and other time periods and tested again. Finally, in order to increase the validity of the model, different statistical methods are used and also the influence of civic culture attitudes in previous decade on change in democracy is tested.