scholarly journals Lincoln at the Edge of the Enlightenment: Reason, Communication, and American Political Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-184
Author(s):  
Seokwon Yang
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
The Enlightenment

Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogers M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minorities ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Liberal Democratic Society

Analysts of American politics since Tocqueville have seen the nation as a paradigmatic “liberal democratic” society, shaped most by the comparatively free and equal conditions and the Enlightenment ideals said to have prevailed at its founding. These accounts must be severely revised to recognize the inegalitarian ideologies and institutions of ascriptive hierarchy that defined the political status of racial and ethnic minorities and women through most of U.S. history. A study of the period 1870–1920 illustrates that American political culture is better understood as the often conflictual and contradictory product of multiple political traditions, than as the expression of hegemonic liberal or democratic political traditions.

Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
American Political Culture

scholarly journals Book Review: American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Carla Wilson Buss
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
Israel Zangwill

Anyone seeking reliable information on American political life since the 1970s will be pleased with Michael Shally-Jensen’s work, American Political Culture. This three-volume set covers topics from abortion to Israel Zangwill, the nineteenth-century author who coined the phrase “melting pot” and who appears in the entry for “Cultural Pluralism.”

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