POLS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Darwinism, Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, Free Rider Problem
6 Nov 2017
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This is one way to lay out the master question to which political science pursues answers. As we just learned in chapter 2, one answer is certainly for a multitude of reasons, all of which are conditioned on the presence or absence of many factors . Like anthropologists, we will begin with the idea of different cultures within all things political. Concept of political culture: a shared framework of values, beliefs, and habits of behavior in regard to government and politics. Texas has a distinctive political culture for a variety of reasons. State"s great size and its relative geographic isolation until the 20th century. A long held, ferocious dislike for being told what to do. Against mexican national government when part of mexico. Against its own leadership as an independent republic. Against the u. s. federal government after achieving statehood. Mixture of old south and frontier (wild west) attitudes and influences.
