ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that sociocultural 'roots' generally take on a different meaning in a post-Communist context compared to Western countries. Trust and confidence in the major city of Western Ukraine would then not be rooted in local contacts and personalities but rather in the common rules of the country. The organised and trusting citizens of Western Ukraine can contribute by their local care-taking in most fields of civil life. The causes of political capital formation are inter-systemic, that is they lie primarily in regime and political history and culture factors. Political culture is related to democratisation in the sense that some political habits, traditions and related beliefs, even if not democratic, provide the basis for the different quality and character of later democratisation. The innovation in American constitutional development was presidentialism plus republicanism, indicating the key change in the branch of democracy. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book.
