William Godwin, Romantic-Era Historiography and the Political Cultures of Infancy

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
John-Erik Hansson
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
Romantic Era

Book Review: The Political Cultures of Massachusetts

1966 ◽  
Vol 3_OS (1) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
Richard Harmond
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Cultures

scholarly journals Transforming Masculinist Political Cultures? Doing Politics in New Political Institutions

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jones ◽  
Nickie Charles ◽  
Charlotte Aull Davies
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
Political Cultures

In the devolved legislative assemblies of Scotland and Wales the proportion of women representatives is approaching parity. This is in marked contrast to Westminster where one in five MPs are women. In this paper we explore the extent to which the masculinist political cultures characterising established political institutions are being reproduced in the National Assembly for Wales or whether its different gendering, both in the numbers of women representatives and in terms of its institutional framework, is associated with a more feminised political and organisational culture. Drawing on interviews with half the Assembly Members, women and men, we show that the political style of the Assembly differs from that of Westminster and that Assembly Members perceive it as being more consensual and as embodying a less aggressive and macho way of doing politics. AMs relate this difference to the gender parity amongst Assembly Members, to the institutional arrangements which have an ‘absolute duty’ to promote equality embedded in them, and to the desire to develop a different way of doing politics. We suggest that the ability to do politics in a more feminised and consensual way relates not only to the presence of a significant proportion of women representatives, but also to the nature of the institution and the way in which differently gendered processes and practices are embedded within it. Differently gendered political institutions can develop a more feminised political culture which provides an alternative to the masculinist political culture characterising the political domain.

The political cultures of French Catholicism

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean‐Marie Donegani
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
French Catholicism

State as Illusion?

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
Business World ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
History Of

Abstract Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk in the discursive and performative orientation of the book. Sometimes the shifting character of what constitutes corruption produces less a systematic account of corruption than a history of shifting political cultures (much of which has, of course, been covered in a variety of ways by scholars of Nigeria). But if the purpose is to see the work that corruption undertakes, then it would also require a careful and granular accounting of the shifting pacts, coalitions, and political cartels linking the business world, the security forces, and the vast fiscal federalism composed of thirty-six states and seven-hundred-odd local government councils covering the last seven decades. The political settlements that have arisen through different conjunctures and across the turbulent history of oil busts and booms need to be clearly explicated if both state effects and the political work of corruption claims are to be fully realized.

The Deferential English: A Comparative Critique

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
The Status ◽  
English Politics ◽  
The Way

ALL POLITICAL CULTURES ARE MIXED AND CHANGING. WHAT IS interesting in the English case, however, is the way in which a veritable army of scholars has seized on the deferential component. Other features in the overall cultural pattern have been neglected. This paper is devoted to an examination of the concept of deference as it is applied to English politics. In particular it will focus on the different meanings that the concept has assumed in the literature describing and analysing the popular political attitudes, and those aspects of the political system, including stability, which it has been used to explain. My concluding argument is that deference, as the concept is frequently applied to English political culture, has attained the status of a stereotype and that it is applied to such variegated and sometimes conflicting data that it has outlived its usefulness as a term in academic currency.

scholarly journals Negative factors affecting the development of legal and political cultures: before the problem

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Olena Minkovich-Slobodianik
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
The People ◽  
Satisfactory State ◽  
Negative Factors

In this article we have tried to analyze the negative factors that affect the development of legal and political cultures and are common to them. Any negative factors that exist in civil society are also reflected in the legal and political cultures. One of these factors, in our view, is corruption. In general, corruption is in he rent in any state and any society because it is connected with the human nature, greed and in ability to deny it self and stop in time, therefore, in our view, corruption as well as crime in general can not be over come – they can be substantially reduced. Level but not eradicate. Ukraine today declares its political and legal path to wards Europe, its values ​​and humanistic ideas. The persistent corruption crisis, which has been going on for quite sometime in our country, requires deep social reforms that must first and fore most affect people's consciousness and their social standard of living. It is no better in the political sphere, because today we do not even have a legal definition of the concept of "political corruption"; Today's society is characterized by some ambivalence, we have the same problem in the political sphere as in the legal sphere, namely, on the one hand citizens "cry" about the need to fight corruption, on the other – by all means "help" its prosperity by finding all the time for it self justification, fearing "reprisals", simply be having marginally. Thus, we lose one of the main elements of political consciousness - motivation. Another serious negative factor affecting the development of legal and political cultures is nihilism. Since nihilism is itself a rejection of values, in our case legal, it is quite understandable that languages, not only about the high, but at least satisfactory, state of legal culture cannot be. The spread of legal nihilism in our society has become possible not only because of an unsatisfactory level of lawmaking and enforcement, but also through appropriate political decisions that precede it. In this context, we can say that legal nihilism is characteristic not only of ordinary citizens, but in most of our politicians, top officials who constantly broadcast to the general public their disrespect for the Law. As a result, in the political sphere, this leads to a total distrust of the people in the political establishment of Ukraine, marginal behavior, the pursuit of screen leaders, and as a result of deformation of political consciousness and a decrease in the level of political culture as a whole. As a result of this study, it becomes clear that legal and political culture have common factors that depend on both the speed of their development and the qualitative component.

scholarly journals Return projects in the Spanish Republican exile’s political cultures

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 002
Author(s):  
Jorge De Hoyos Puente
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Cultures

This paper presents the political projects variety issued from the Spanish Republican exile. Its aim is to analyse the reasons of disagreement that took place throughout forty years of Franco´s opposition. Focusing on the political cultures’ study it can be confirmed a wade range of speeches and political imaginaries that shaped Spanish left-wing groups on the twentieth century Spanish longest exile.

scholarly journals Apeniny we wspomnieniach Anieli Walewskiej

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Król
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Aesthetic Evaluation ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Aesthetic Attitude ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain Landscapes

Kilka chwil we Włoszech w latach 1847 i 1848 [A few Moments in Italy in 1847 and 1848], a volume of memoirs published in 1850 and written by Aniela Walewska — a forgotten author of the Romantic era — is a historically, culturally and socially interesting travel account which, in addition to notes devoted to the political situation at the time, also features descriptions of cultural and natural landscapes which Walewska had an opportunity to admire during her Italian voyage. Particularly worthy of note are her reflections concerning mountain landscapes reflecting the author’s romantic sensibility as well as her emotional and aesthetic attitude to new places. Spending a few weeks in the Tuscan resort of Bagni di Lucca, Aniela Walewska had an opportunity to admire the Apennines, which generated admiration and lofty feelings in her and prompted her to engage in existential, philosophical and religious reflection. Using a variety of means of literary expression, the writer sought to convey the varied aspects of the mountains: solemn beauty, picturesque charm, severe and wild appearance. Yet despite her lively interest in the Apennine landscapes, the Polish traveller was preoccupied primarily with the political situation in her distant homeland, which determined her perception of and feeling for the mountains so much that her observations often departed from purely aesthetic evaluation in favour of patriotic associations. However, the descriptions in her memoirs are vivid, full of admiration and rapture, which makes them worthy of being brought back from obscurity and analysed thoroughly. As evidence of individual and feminine way of experiencing the world of nature, they certainly make a valuable contribution to the Romantic travel literature and expand our knowledge of the history of mountain voyages of Polish women in that period.

The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin vol 4

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Philp ◽  
Pamela Clemit ◽  
Martin Fitzpatrick ◽  
William St.Clair
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Philosophical Writings
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