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Continued:<br />

Interest in Politics<br />

(Percent valid)<br />

Importance of Politics in Life<br />

(Percent valid)<br />

Central & Southern America<br />

Argentina .28*** (89) .18*** (90)<br />

Chile .26*** (92) .20*** (90)<br />

Peru .18*** (89) .07* (88)<br />

Puerto Rico .26*** (95) .07 (95)<br />

Mexico .21*** (80) .11*** (80)<br />

Venezuela .20*** (94) .04 (94)<br />

Africa<br />

Algeria .25*** (86) .14*** (84)<br />

Jordan .16*** (98) .14*** (97)<br />

Morocco .28*** (80) .24*** (80)<br />

Egypt .00 (99) .00 (97)<br />

South Africa .29*** (87) .22*** (87)<br />

Zimbabwe .12*** (88) .06 (86)<br />

Ug<strong>and</strong>a .23*** (63) .16*** (62)<br />

Nigeria .20*** (89) .12*** (89)<br />

Tanzania .06 (96) .09** (84)<br />

Confucian societies<br />

Japan .21*** (80) .21*** (75)<br />

Southern Asia<br />

Bangladesh .25*** (79) .14*** (80)<br />

Turkey .26*** (72) .20*** (96)<br />

Indonesia .21*** (85) .08* (81)<br />

Philippines .12*** (98) .08** (98)<br />

Vietnam .14*** (81) .03 (80)<br />

Pakistan .30*** (91) .32*** (90)<br />

India .32*** (77) .23*** (77)<br />

Israel .11* (89) .00 (89)<br />

Source: World Values Survey 1999-2001. The coding of the variables:<br />

(1) Interest in politics: “How interested would you say are you in politics?” Very interested, somewhat<br />

interested, not very interested, not at all interested. The variable was recoded: 4 = very interested in politics,<br />

(...) 1 = not at all interested in politics.<br />

(2) Importance of politics in life: “For each of the following, indicate how important it is in your life.<br />

Would you say it is: very important, rather important, not very important, not at all important? (...)<br />

Politics”. The variable was recoded: 4 = politics is very important, (...) 1 = politics is not at all important.<br />

9.2.3 Liberal Orientations<br />

The concept of political support, <strong>and</strong> hereby the traditional political culture school, has<br />

focused on specific political attitudes when it comes to orientations that are conducive for<br />

democracy. By contrast, early concepts from psychology have focused on non-political<br />

orientations instead, arguing that these more general predispositions matter for people’s<br />

everyday life, <strong>and</strong> in the end also for a political system (for an overview see Welzel<br />

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