The Artificial Political Culture Model
Conceptualization and Anticipatory Modelling
Keywords:
artificial political culture, artificial polity, political system, anticipatory systems, political methodology, modelling, constructivismAbstract
In political science in general and in political methodology in particular, the study of value change is often viewed as providing the main arguments concerning the quality of a democracy. In Eastern European democracies, the study of values in relationship to the study of the quality of democracy provides support to the idea that notwithstanding the importance of economic factor, the political culture factors might play a decisive role. Our approach is aimed at providing a complexity-based framework for the study of the political systems as anticipatory systems based on an internal model consisting of a value set. Our approach is aimed at providing arguments in favor of the idea that the dynamics of a political system is essentially influenced by the value change processes. The paper defines a polity as a political system with anticipatory characteristics which is based on a political culture internal model. In turn, the political culture is modelled as an artificial political culture system which operates as an internal model for a political system (polity). The paper starts from Schwartz’s value theory (Schwartz, 1992, 2005, 2012) which is based on a set of universal values. Our basic assumption is that the value orientation of an individual agent changes. From a mathematical point of view, the current position of a value orientation locates an individual agent in the values space. It is this value orientation which changes, thus providing for the emergence of mass political participation processes which would finally influence the polity dynamics.
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