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This paper is intended to reflect on the main causes of the lack of research on women's political culture and on their processes of political learning. Therefore, three different issues will be taken into consideration. First of all, the reasons that explain why the classical model of political culture didn't develop a field of research on women and political culture. The second section will draw on the recent contributions of R. Inglehart and P. Norris, whose analysis on cultural change has focused on the role of women's change of values and of political cultures. Finally, I identify some specificities of the political culture in Spain, and develop a brief analysis of the differences between the way in which Spanish men and women conceive their civic bond. Adapted from the source document.

In this article I critically examine the concept of the 'left' that is employed in the book The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts. The critique can be seen as part of a long academic conversation concerning the meaning and implications of the re-emergence of a 'new left' in Latin America. I object to their definition not only as a consequence of the political and economic content that they associate with the idea of the 'left', but also as a result of the programmatic objectives that they relate to leftist governments. By the end of the text, I offer an alternative definition of the term, which is based on the ideals of economic and political democracy. Adapted from the source document.