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Reconciling the diversity of political cultures, values and national identities with the European integration project is one of the most fundamental challenges contemporary Europe is facing. This challenge is readily apparent in the Baltic Sea region with its mosaic of peoples, cultures and identities. The impact of the ongoing process of European integration on the post-Communist societies on the Eastern rim of the Baltic Sea is indisputable. The negotiations between the European Union and the East European candidate countries were in fact accompanied by a large scale transfer of organization

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Some Paradigmatic Issues in the Study of Chinese Political Culture -- Part I: The Chinese Cultural Tradition and Its Modern Face -- 1. Sage, Teacher, Businessman: Confucius as a Model Male -- 2. The Changing Concept of Zhong (Loyalty): Emerging New Chinese Political Culture -- 3. New Confucianism: A Native Response to Western Philosophy -- Part II: Socialization: Official Ideologies, Literature, and the Media

Demonstrating that political culture is equally rooted in public events, internal debates, and historical experiences, this unique, three-volume encyclopedia examines an exceptionally broad range of factors shaping modern American politics, including popular belief, political action, and the institutions of power and authority. Readers will see how political culture is shaped by the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of Americans, and how it affects those things in return. The set also addresses the issue of American ""exceptionalism"" and examines the nation's place in the world, both histor

Few empirical studies of Arab countries have dealt with political culture and political socialisation or focused on people's beliefs, values, and attitudes towards the government or political leaders, mainly because the regimes have been reluctant to allow opinion to be tested. The significance of this book is that it assesses the influence of state ideology on the new generation of Libyans, and examines their political culture

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE PLAYING THE OTHER: THE FRENCH SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION -- 1 Montesquieu: Entre Bêtes et Dieux -- 2 Rousseau and the Ancient Republic -- 3 Romance and Criticism in Germaine de Staël -- 4 Benjamin Constant's Defense of Modern Liberalism -- 5 François Guizot on the Politics of Political Culture -- 6 Tocqueville's New Science of Democracy -- 7 Notes -- PART TWO CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS: THE TRADITION OF CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY -- 1 Political Culture in the Age of Goethe -- 2 Kant's Anthropological Odyssey -- 3 The Plurality of Language, History, and Culture in Herder and Humboldt -- 4 Hegel on the Ends of Ethical Life -- 5 Faustian Dialectics in the Works of Karl Marx -- 6 Which Weber? Whose Weber? -- 7 Notes -- PART THREE THE AMERICAN SCIENCE OF POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 1 Separate Tables: On the Culture of American Political Science -- 2 Getting Our Professional History Straight: On the American Science of Political Culture -- 3 Funeral Orations to Behavioral Science -- 4 Inside Dante's Hell -- 5 A Critical Dialogue on Political Participation -- 6 The Rebirth of Political Culture -- 7 Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

Developing a theory of political culture as consisting of two dimensions, discourse and practice, the book explains how political culture can both inhibit political change and be a source of it. It explores the nature and dynamics of political culture systematically and comprehensively, and suggests numerous new lines of empirical research.