Citizen Participation and Political Culture in the La Libertad Region, 2019

Abstract

Normally, we would all agree that knowledge of the political and democratic systems is one of the first things that we as members of a society, with the ability and the right to make our opinion known through mechanisms of citizen participation, should learn and instill in it. However, there is a term that is little known, or at any rate, used in a very limited way: "political cultures". This is despite the fact that many authors find a relationship between that term and citizen participation. This article proposes a study where it is possible to compile evidence of the perception that a certain group of people of a specific locality possesses, about whether there is really a relationship between citizen participation and political culture and, if so, what it is.