Value Orientations and Political Attitudes among Future Military and Civilian Elites
Cultural Differences between the Military and Parent Society in Democratic Countries
ISBN: 978-0-444-53024-0, eISBN: 978-1-84950-014-2
Publication date: 18 July 2007
Abstract
In this article the basic value orientations of future officers and civilian students are compared. It is found that the variance between the 13 countries included in the survey is mostly larger than the one between civilian and military students when it comes to the basic value dimensions such as tradition vs. modernity, left vs. right, cosmopolitan vs. localistic, materialistic vs. post-materialistic and civilian vs. military values. Thus, the military are not consistently in all countries more religious, more right oriented and more materialistic than their civil fellow students, even if there exists a tendency for such a trend.
Citation
Haltiner, K.W. and Weibull, A. (2007), "Value Orientations and Political Attitudes among Future Military and Civilian Elites", Caforio, G. (Ed.) Cultural Differences between the Military and Parent Society in Democratic Countries (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 51-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(07)04003-9
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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