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	Minnesota -- The Epitome of the Moralistic Political Culture
		Politics, to the moralistic political culture, is considered one of the great activities of humanity in its search for the good society -- a struggle for power, it is true, but also an effort to exercise power for the betterment of the commonwealth.
		Political parties are not important in traditionalistic political cultures because they encourage a degree of openness that goes against the grain of an elitist political order.
		The belief in the efficacy of politics remains strong among a substantial segment of the population in Minnesota, to an extent unmatched in states dominated by the individualistic political culture.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles2/minn3.htm (5911 words)

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		The "subject" political culture is one in which people do identify with their nation or government and are aware of their obligations to obey the laws of the society in which they live, to co-operate with officials, to pay taxes and to render military service as needed.
		The "participant" political culture is one in which not only do its members identify with the political system, and believe that it is effective in seeking to serve the people, but also believe that they have the power and right to make demands upon the political system to perform in certain ways.
		Political discussion and involvement in community affairs, a sense of civic obligation and a sense of competence to influence the government are frequently reported.
	www.isu.edu /~andesean/comsek13.txt (1161 words)

	Political Culture
		In 1970, a University of Illinois political scientist, Daniel Elazar, was so perplexed by what he considered an outrageous tolerance for political corruption throughout Illinois that he developed an elaborate social theory to explain it, hinging on the various “migration streams” and political cultures of various parts of the state.
		The “machine politics” that was so famously perfected in Chicago by Richard J. Daley, who was mayor from 1955 until his death in 1976, actually was a feature of politics throughout Illinois—including in the “downstate” areas whose residents prefer to see themselves as victims of Chicago's corruption.
		Most historians of city politics now consider the idea that ward politicians were “welfare” providers to be little more than fantasy; they reject the old claim that ethnic coalitions were broadly inclusive; and they picture voters as generally rational and responsible in choosing their political leaders.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/987.html (3225 words)

	GPD Ch. 6: Defining Political Culture
		Political culture is currently in a state where the leading approach-that of Almond and Verba (1963) has achieved only a modest plurality and may have done so, moreover, only because of its methodological convenience.
		The conceptualization of political culture as "all publicly common ways of relating within the collectivity" satisfies the supramembership criterion, because the public commonness of a way of relating is not a characteristic of the individual (or of arbitrarily aggregated individuals).
		This form of research concentrates on political culture's correlates, not its conceptualization, and a reader of this literature may be pardoned for concluding that political culture is itself a political-structural concept.
	www.d.umn.edu /~schilton/Articles/GPD6.html (12519 words)

	Brazil - Political Culture
		Many aspects of Brazil's political system may be explained by its political culture (see Glossary), the origins of which may be found in traditional rural society during the colonial and independence periods through 1930.
		The local political chiefs in turn exchanged votes with politicians at the state level in return for political appointments and public works in their municipalities (municípios).
		Politics in the states of the Northeast (Nordeste) and North (Norte) are much more dependent on political benevolence from Brasília than are the states of the South (Sul) and Southeast (Sudeste).
	countrystudies.us /brazil/83.htm (677 words)

	Melberg, Hans O., Political culture
		The concept of political culture is enjoying a renaissance and Stephen White deserves credit for being one of the initiators of this renewal.
		However, I would argue the aim of the political cultural approach is to explain patterns of behaviour using cultural variables - not to describe or restate the behaviour in a new terminology.
		Moving from the old Russian Culture to the modern Soviet political culture, White spends two chapters on the mechanisms by which the Soviet authorities tried to change the political culture - to create a new "Soviet Man." In the very beginning the effort was directed through the Commissariat of the Enlightenment led by V. Lunacharsky.
	www.geocities.com /hmelberg/papers/960926.htm (2858 words)

	Political Culture in Canada Essay \| Student Essays
		Political culture in Canada is much different than the political culture in most other countries in the world.
		There are many things, words, or people that may try and define Canada and its political culture between the 1990's and present, but to be truly honest one must come to the conclusion that unless you intend to write more than a few measly sentences, you may not even come close.
		It was a political fiasco that rocked the entire nation and very undeniably jumbled many peoples view of the political culture of Canada.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2005/11/29/45545/578 (1818 words)

	Institute of Development and Education for Africa (IDEA)
		However, Machiavelli contradicted himself in promoting politics that is synonymous with ‘struggle to win, utilize, and contain power.’ On the one hand, he argues, ‘dominion and wealth’ could not be augmented without citizens enjoying liberty, and on the other he clearly glorifies the pre-eminent position of the statecraft and power vis-à-vis individual interests.
		As a result, the victims are further victimized and criminalized and the political culture that blossomed during the pre-election period proved to be that it was indeed evanescent stream of experience that seemingly provided more excitement and a greater effervescence of ideas.
		Politics is art of the possible and in a nutshell it is art of ‘use it or lose it’, and if the political actors don’t get hold of opportunities, they end up facing grave consequences.
	www.africanidea.org /political_culture.html (3359 words)

	POLITICAL CULTURE
		French political culture is greatly influence by economic, social, and geographical characteristics of France.
		Important characteristics of the French population have shaped the political culture.
		Despite the conflict and disagreements, French political culture is held together by this very important nationalism.
	phs.prs.k12.nj.us /ewood/Eurodemo/France/politicalculture.htm (448 words)

	Political culture@Everything2.com
		Political cultures can revolve around religion, ethnic background, location, gender, or any situation that could cause a dispute.
		Politics is perceived as another form of professional business activity." He claims the judges are well salaried and that the government serves "as referee among many competing individual interests, not implementing any broad policy of the public good." As a result litigation rates in individualistic cultures will be relatively higher than in traditionalistic or moralistic.
		Political Culture is a good predictor of a particular states' policy making habits, both their past and future reforms.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1188643 (572 words)

	Vietnam - Political Culture
		Vietnam's political culture has been determined by a number of factors of which communism is but the latest.
		Moreover, the South's political systems had tended to isolate the center, in both symbolic and physical terms, from the majority of the people, who had no clear means of access to their government.
		Vietnam's political culture represents, therefore, the steadfast survival of what is Vietnamese in the face of a long history of outside influence; integration of historical political ideals with an imported communist organizational model has created a communist identity that is no less Vietnamese.
	countrystudies.us /vietnam/55.htm (1624 words)

	Institutions and Political Culture
		For, in defining politics as part of the allocation of values (as we did in the Introductory chapter of this text) we are saying, essentially, that politics forms culture.
		What he was talking about when he wrote about culture was the patterned responses of a people, patterns essentially imposed upon the people by their own interactions with each other individuals, groups, and institutions in the process of problem solving, buying and selling, and just going about the business of living.
		I am suggesting that, rather than try to see politics and culture as two distinct social enterprises, one dominating the other, it might be more illuminating to understand the two social forces in terms of their obvious interrelationship.
	www.sou.edu /polisci/hughes/Institut.htm (2415 words)

	Political Culture
		Of all the factors that affect financial condition, political culture is perhaps the most difficult to analyze, explain and project.
		Political culture is important to consider because it influences local attitudes toward taxes and services.
		Because political culture is highly subjective there are no indicators provided for measuring this factor.
	www.peoriaaz.com /tape2004/political_cult.asp (91 words)

	Educational Module on CBW: Case Study Libya
		An attempt to understand Libya's armament dynamic should include a consideration of the political culture as well as of the way the decision-making process is structured.
		Political control is almost exclusively in the hands of Qadhafi whose official title is 'revolutionary leader'.
		The political system of Libya is largely based on Qadhafi's own ideology, which has been described as a kind of Islamic or Arabic socialism inspired by the Arab nationalism that flourished in the Middle East during the 1960s.
	poli.vub.ac.be /cbw/cbw/003020100.html (395 words)

	Texas Politics - Texas Political Culture
		But, any understanding of politics in the state is incomplete without some attempt to examine the interplay of forces that shape Texans' views of themselves and their fellow residents of the state.
		In the modern era, the various strands of Texas political culture could be boiled down to three main ideological tendencies: economic liberalism (faith in the "free market" economy) combined with social conservatism (favoring traditional values and moralism), overlaid with populism (promoting the rights and worthiness of ordinary people).
		Yet, another dimension of the dynamism and diversity of our culture is revealed in the comments of UT historian G. Howard Miller in his analysis of the intersection of religious diversity, urbanization, and regional differences in the state.
	texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/cult/index.html (568 words)

	Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua - Cambridge University Press
		It demonstrates that while factors highlighted by standard explanations matter, it is political culture that configures economic development, institutional choices and political pacts in ways that directly affect democracy's chances and quality.
		This attempt to re-situate political culture as a centrally important explanatory variable adds a fresh perspective to current analyses, and Consuelo Cruz's way of conceptualizing political culture as a dynamic, interactive variable that is engaged with other factors (economic, institutional) makes for a sophisticated and novel analysis...
		Cruz documents how and why political culture mattered for such key variables as the relative degree of a law bounded state, foreign intervention, democratization, and a consensually based welfare state.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521842034 (469 words)

	Chinese Political Culture
		Modernization theorists emphasized the close relationship of political culture to "political socialization" (that is, "the process whereby political values and attitudes are inculcated") and "secularization" (that is, "the process whereby men become increasingly rational, analytical, and empirical in their political action").
		Such transformations in political culture, one hastens to add, are not necessarily in the direction of greater "secularization." One finds little evidence, in China or elsewhere in the world, of a process whereby "traditional" orientations inexorably give way to more "rational" modes of thinking.
		While this new political culture approach is still in its infancy in the contemporary Chinese studies field, its application to the study of political change elsewhere in the world is well established.
	tsquare.tv /links/Perry.html (5716 words)

	Political Culture
		Political culture is a broadly shared system of beliefs on the nature of government and citizens’ roles within government.
		The idea of political culture therefore attempts to explain why people behave the way they do in terms of the political culture of which they are a part - in terms not of their specific desires, but rather what they believe about what government should be like and how it should be run.
		Political culture, and hence public opinion, starts with what is called political socialization: All of the elements that go into making any one person's outlook on political life.
	flightline.highline.edu /ps120/new_page_4.htm (1302 words)

	Political Culture
		A political culture is generally understood to be a patterned set of ways of thinking about how politics and governing ought to be carried out, and a subculture is a somewhat differing view peculiar to a smaller area or group.
		It was based on a model of consensus politics and a deference to ecclesiastical authority, which set it apart from the dominant American political culture of the time.
		A crucial determinant of a community's or a nation's political stability and governmental effectiveness is the extent to which its citizens give their primary political loyalties to it rather than to a particular region, tribe, or religion.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/politics/Political_Culture_EOM.htm (1031 words)

	Russian Political Culture
		The fruits of this labor seem to be a politically aware minority among Russian workers, but certainly not the revolutionarily active majority which the Social Democrats had hoped for.
		This volume is a comprehensive study of the political police system in late Imperial Russia based on a vast bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and on Zuckerman's research in the Hoover Intitution's Archives.
		Over the next 40 years, economic growth continued and the merchant class only grew stronger politically as the government realized that it needed to heed the merchants’ demands, since their economic growth was essential to national power.
	www.uoregon.edu /~kimball/hst407.R.plt.clt.htm (7049 words)

	Political culture Summary and Analysis
		Political culture can be defined as "The orientation of the citizens of a nation toward politics, and their perceptions of political legitimacy and the traditions of political...
		A split California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Indian tribes, some of the state's biggest political donors, are bound by campaign-finance disclosure rules.In a 4-3 ruling, the justices upheld a lower court decision that said tribes were subject to campaign-finance enforcement lawsuits from the Fair...
		The understanding of "Political culture" is a powerful, integrating concept of political science, attitudes and beliefs that effect around the nature of political system and the way it works.
	www.bookrags.com /Political_culture (220 words)

	Political&Cultural
		For instance, a milk producer's economic well-being is dependent upon a Rural sub-culture which accepts the several days of suffering that a cow endures when her mental state is disturbed by the removal of her calf.
		The long term political consequences of such a conflict are hard to estimate, but they are highly likely to harm the aspirations of Labour to move from being "champion of the less well off" to being a "one nation" party.
		The cavalier attitude towards a cultural minority, that is implicit in a Hunting Ban, is highly undemocratic and uncharacteristic of the traditions of the Labour Party, which used to have a good reputation amongst minorities.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/ni12/html/culture_politic_moral.html (1239 words)

	Texas Politics - Texas Political Culture
		In a video segment in section 1 of this chapter, UT Austin anthropologist Richard Flores illustrates how major economic innovations in agriculture and transportation in Texas set the stage for specific transformations of the economy –; specifically, the creation of commercial agriculture and the attendant pushing of middle-class Mexican Americans lower in the class structure.
		As sections 2.0 and 2.1 of this chapter discuss, the economic hallmarks of the state's political culture have been – and continue to be – an emphasis on entrepreneurship, wealth, and a deeply entrenched aversion to taxes and the provision of government services, especially for the poor.
		Still, the seemingly reflexive support among wide swaths of the population for the low-taxes, low services approach to government remains deeply rooted in the mixture of class liberalism and social conservatism that is central to Texas political culture.
	texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/cult/0400.html (596 words)

	Elezar's Three Political Cultures
		Political culture refers to what people believe and feel about government, and how they think people should act towards it.
		Politics is considered one of the great activities of man in the search for the "good society." Good government is measured by the degree to which it promotes the public good.
		In areas with this type of political culture, government is seen as having a very practical orientation.
	academic.regis.edu /jriley/421elazar.htm (558 words)

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