POL224Y1 Lecture Notes - Negative And Positive Rights, Social Capital
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State, economy, civil society trinity emerged in western europe north. America by the 20th century. became the guiding ideology for all fields. Did it then become the "model" for everybody else? (held, pp. 19-22) As europeans colonized africa/latin america, they created state forms that created as trinity on some level. Good governments in africa are accepting the trinity. East asians are coming to adapt a different model where the economy gets differentiated but the civil society might not. Concept that emerges as important in the 1950"s and has remained important ever since. Lots of different currents in the study of political culture. What is political culture? what can be said in civil society about politics, without suffering a legal impediment or being laughed at. either of those things means saying it is outside of the political culture. Habits, practices and beliefs acceptable in some societies and not in others. Lets examine 3 major waves of this preoccupation.