The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post‐apartheid South Africa
The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post‐apartheid South Africa
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“生而自由”：种族隔离后南非世代变革的前景
DOI：
10.1080/10361146.2011.643166
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Robert Mattes
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作者：
Robert Mattes
南非 1996 年宪法开创了民主政权，带来了新的自由和权利，并大大扩大了政治参与的机会。 1998年，南非还实施了新的学校课程，其目的之一是促进民主和其他宪法价值观。与此同时，南非经历了快速的人口变化，越来越多的年轻人进入选民时没有种族隔离的工作记忆。鉴于我们对战后欧洲和日本政权更迭后民众态度转变的了解，社会化和民主习惯理论将使我们预期南非的政治文化将发生重大的亲民主转变，特别是在最年轻的一代中，他们在南非被普遍称为“生来自由”。然而，与这些期望相反，调查证据表明，种族隔离后的一代人不像他们的父母或祖父母那样致力于民主。
South Africa's 1996 Constitution ushered in a democratic regime that brought new freedoms and rights and greatly expanded opportunities for political participation. In 1998, South Africa also implemented a new school curriculum intended, among other things, to promote democratic and other constitutional values. At the same time, South Africa has undergone rapid demographic change as growing proportions of young people enter the electorate with no working memory of apartheid. Given our knowledge of post-regime change shifts in popular attitudes in postwar Europe and Japan, theories of socialisation and democratic habituation would lead us to expect significant pro-democratic shifts in South Africa's political culture, especially amongst the youngest generation, who are popularly known in South Africa as the ‘Born Frees’. Against these expectations, however, survey evidence indicates that the post-apartheid generation are less committed to democracy than their parents or grandparents.