The first pattern that Dalton (2009, 145) found is that there is a decrease in duty citizenship norm among younger generations in both the U.S. and other compared democracies . The statistics that Dalton (2009, 145) presented even show a sharper decline in norms of citizen duty in the other democratic nations than in the America. The second pattern suggests that changes in engaged citizenship norm in the U.S. and other democracies are slightly different (Dalton, 2009, 145). Even though the norm of engaged citizenship in the America is significantly increasing over the generational shift, this trend in other democratic nations shows less remarkable changes (Dalton, 2009, 146). Therefore, the two patterns have captured not only the general similarities but also the detailed differences between American politics and other democracies’ politics, which make Dalton’s comparisons in this chapter academically
The first pattern that Dalton (2009, 145) found is that there is a decrease in duty citizenship norm among younger generations in both the U.S. and other compared democracies . The statistics that Dalton (2009, 145) presented even show a sharper decline in norms of citizen duty in the other democratic nations than in the America. The second pattern suggests that changes in engaged citizenship norm in the U.S. and other democracies are slightly different (Dalton, 2009, 145). Even though the norm of engaged citizenship in the America is significantly increasing over the generational shift, this trend in other democratic nations shows less remarkable changes (Dalton, 2009, 146). Therefore, the two patterns have captured not only the general similarities but also the detailed differences between American politics and other democracies’ politics, which make Dalton’s comparisons in this chapter academically