Political Culture and Political Development

Pye, Lucian W.; Verba, Sidney

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“…And with the end of the Cold War, this polarization also quickly dissipated. Research also implied that these publics have limited ideological orientations and be relatively unengaged in politics (e.g., Almond and Verba 1963;Pye and Verba 1965). The limited empirical research on ideological orientations among Third World publics has not resolved these contrasting images (e.g., Nathan and Shi 1996;Mainwaring 1999;Shin and Jhee 2004).…”

Section: The End Of Ideology Thesismentioning

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Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization

Dalton¹

2006

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Over forty years ago, Daniel Bell made the provocative claim that ideological polarization was diminishing in Western democracies, but new ideologies were emerging and driving politics in developing nations. This article tests the End of Ideology thesis with a new wave of data from the World Values Survey (WVS) that covers over 70 nations representing more than 80 percent of the world's population. We find that polarization along the Left/Right dimension is substantially greater in the less affluent and less democratic societies than in advanced industrial democracies. The correlates of Left/Right orientations also vary systematically across regions. The twin pillars of economic and religious cleavages remain important in European states; cultural values and nationalism provide stronger bases of ideology in Asia and the Middle East. As Bell suggested, social modernization does seem to transform the extent and bases of ideological polarization within contemporary societies. 1 Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological PolarizationIn the halcyon days of the early 1960s, Daniel Bell (1960) made a provocative claim about the "End of Ideology. Bell maintained that "In the Western world, therefore, there is a rough consensus among intellectuals on political issues: the acceptance of a WelfareState; the desirability of decentralized power; a system of mixed economy and of political pluralism. In that sense, too, the ideological age has ended" (pg. 373). He also claimed that while ideological debates had been exhausted in the West, new ideologies were emerging and driving politics in Asia and Africa.For more than a generation, the basic premise underlying Bell's claim has been widely debate. The apparent erosion of the class cleavage in Western democracies, and the emergence of a consensus in support of the welfare state were taken as indicators of the erosion of traditional ideological divisions (Kirchheimer 1966;Thomas 1979 Second, we use cross-national aggregate data to test the core hypothesis of whether ideological positions are less polarized in advanced industrial democracies, while continuing to divide the publics in the developing world. Third, we examine the whether the correlates of ideology--and hence the meaning of ideological cleavage--vary systematically across nations. These empirical findings provide the basis for discussing the relationship between social modernization and ideology, and the likely consequences of this relationship for contemporary political systems. The End of Ideology ThesisDaniel Bell premised the End of Ideology Hypothesis on a set of social changes that were transforming Western democracies. One factor was the tremendous economic progress of the mid-20 th century, and the concomitant transformation of the employment patterns and living conditions. In a later work, Bell (1973) stressed the role of ethnicity and nationalism as source of division in developing nations.At the same time, one might add that the struggles over economic well-being...

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Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization

Dalton¹

2006

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…This part will give some definitions of political development, and later discusses the origins of Iranian political development after 1953.Political development, in general, is defined as the adjustment between old patterns of life and new demands, in relation to political aspects. As, Lucian W. Pye (1965) mentions, "Political development is a basic concept supporting the gradual diffusion throughout all societies of what we might call a world culture." According to him, the first step to reach political development is the development of a national state.…”

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“…According to him, the first step to reach political development is the development of a national state. He points out, political development can be in the whole population, at government level and in the organization of political system as well (Pye 1965).…”

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Political Development Concept by Looking Briefly at the Iran’s Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Rule

Karimi¹,

Singh²

2014

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Concept of political development such as other concepts of political science has a lack of consensus among researchers and scholars. This article is going to review the concept of political development. It begins with an overview on definitions of political development. Presumably, it presents different aspects and characteristics of political development. This article establishes Iran"s efforts towards political development during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Rule. Moreover, this article concludes that process of political development in Iran was affected by two main theories of political development by some western and Iranian political thinker"s definition on this concept.

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“…The suggestion that one can distinguish a national or regional political style implies the existence of an identifiable political culture, 1 though 3 POLITICAL STYLE IN MODERN MELANESIA* * This paper was presented at a seminar at the ANU in 1980 and published in R.J. May and Hank Nelson (eds), Melanesia Beyond Diversity (1982). 1 On the concept of political culture see Almond and Verba (1963), Pye and Verba (1965), Almond and Powell (1966:chapter 3), Kavanagh (1972). This writing might be compared with the earlier literature on 'national character', of which there is an extensive review in Inkeles and Levinson (1969). it does not deny the importance of individual personality in political style.…”

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State and Society in Papua New Guinea : The First Twenty-Five Years

May¹

2004

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Political Culture and Political Development

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Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization

Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization

Political Development Concept by Looking Briefly at the Iran’s Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Rule

State and Society in Papua New Guinea : The First Twenty-Five Years

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