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Ioannis N. Grigoriadis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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trials of europeanization turkish Political Culture and the european union
2009Co-Authors: Ioannis N. GrigoriadisAbstract:Introduction The Historical Background to the Debate on Turkish Political Culture Civil Society The State The Secularism Debate Turkish National Identity Conclusions/Prospects of Turkish Political Culture
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Turkish Political Culture and the European Union
2005Co-Authors: Ioannis N. GrigoriadisAbstract:This thesis examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish Political Culture since the 1990s. While republican institutions and a multi-party Political system were introduced in Turkey by the 1950s, Political liberalism was the missing part of Turkey's substantive democratisation. The subject character of Ottoman Political Culture, compounded by the leading Political role of the military and successive military coups, resulted in the consolidation of a republican Political Culture, which valued submissiveness toward state authority and did not favour citizen participation. The liberal deficit of Turkish politics became apparent with Turkey's decision to pursue membership of the European Union. Turkey's need to comply with the Copenhagen Criteria to achieve the start of EU accession negotiations meant that Political liberalisation reforms were inevitable. This study embarks from an examination of the historical background to the Political Culture debate in Turkey. It then explores European and Turkish Political Cultures and draws a comparison between them. The core of this study consists of an exploration of the impact that Turkey's EU-motivated Political reform had on civil society, state-society relations, the role of religion in politics and national identity. An assessment whether Turkish Political Culture has become more participant and citizen-centred is attempted in the concluding chapter. The theoretical framework of this thesis is informed by the work of Almond and Verba on civic Culture. Historical institutionalist theories of European integration and path dependence theory are also applied to explain the role of the European Union in the liberalisation process of Turkish Political Culture. Putnam's work on two-level games helps explain the interplay of Turkish and European actors in the process of EU-Turkey negotiations, while his work on 16 social capital points at a feature, which can serve as the acid test for the emergence of a liberal, participant Political Culture in Turkey.
Stephen Welch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Theory of Political Culture
2013Co-Authors: Stephen WelchAbstract:Introduction 1. Theoretical Marginalization: The Positivist Mainstream of Political Culture Research 2. Theoretical Denial: The Interpretive Alternative in Political Culture Research 3. Theoretical Displacement (I): Materialist Alternatives to Political Culture Research 4. Theoretical Displacement (II): Discursivist Critiques of Political Culture Research 5. The Dualistic Ontology of Culture (I): Philosophical Arguments 6. The Dualistic Ontology of Culture (II): Psychological Findings 7. The Inertial Dynamics of Political Culture 8. The Fluid Dynamics of Political Culture Conclusion
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Political Culture and Stalinism
The Concept of Political Culture, 1993Co-Authors: Stephen WelchAbstract:If a large variety of ways of operationalizing the concept of Political Culture is found within the behaviouralist idiom, the same is all the more true within interpretivism. While the stringent scientific standards of behaviouralism are not always adhered to in Political Culture research, at least standards exist. Interpretivism begins, as we saw in the Introduction, by denying the need for such standards. Accordingly, a wide range of uses of Political Culture could be marshalled as examples of interpretivism, from historiography as well as Political science. But rather than beginning with a broad survey, we will follow a procedure similar to that adopted in earlier chapters, of looking in detail at a representative example. In this case, however, we need to go further; we will examine a use of Political Culture that to some extent has to be inferred and constructed from a number of sources. The initial and main source for this use is Robert C. Tucker’s Political cultural interpretation of Stalinism. However, the use we will develop and assess goes beyond Tucker’s in some ways and limits it in others. Our purpose in so doing is twofold: to present interpretive Political Culture research in its most persuasive light, and to distinguish it clearly from the hybrid uses with which, the Introduction argued, it is often intertwined, as it is in Tucker’s work. Although vulnerable to criticism, the interpretive use that we will develop is, therefore, far from being a straw man.
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Political Culture and Democracy
The Concept of Political Culture, 1993Co-Authors: Stephen WelchAbstract:One of the first questions to which Almond’s newly-coined concept of Political Culture was applied was that of the relationship between Political Culture and democracy, and this has indeed continued to be a major area of Political Culture research. Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba’s The Civic Culture, published in 1963,1 was the original entry into this field, and has remained a benchmark for much subsequent research. At the same time, it has provided an inviting target for criticism. Moreover, the substantial body of data it gathered has been utilized by other authors in arguments that diverge somewhat from Almond and Verba’s. These are good reasons for according The Civic Culture some prominence in the present chapter, but, in view of its familiarity, not yet perhaps sufficient ones. Our argument will be that the study attempts to combine what were termed in the Introduction comparative and sociological uses of Political Culture. Critics have not noticed this fact, and their critiques have in consequence been somewhat partial. The aim of this chapter is, however, not simply to provide a more complete analysis and critique of The Civic Culture. It is to illustrate the effects of what we will argue is a characteristic combination of sociological and comparative uses of Political Culture. A perspective will thereby be developed that assists in the evaluation of the literature, critical and otherwise, that in one way or another has been provoked by Almond and Verba’s study.
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Political Culture and Comparative Explanation
The Concept of Political Culture, 1993Co-Authors: Stephen WelchAbstract:The preceding chapters have attempted to show, by examining in detail some classic attempts at comparative Political cultural explanation and the cases to which they have been applied, in what ways Political Culture falls short of its putative comparative use. The present chapter aims to summarize and reinforce this critique of ‘comparative Political Culture’ as a subfield of Political science by addressing the same problems at a more theoretical and general level. Apart from exposing more clearly the common threads of the earlier more detailed discussion, this chapter will introduce some further examples of Political Culture research, and will discuss several existing theoretical critiques of the concept.
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New Trends in Political Culture Research
The Concept of Political Culture, 1993Co-Authors: Stephen WelchAbstract:This final chapter, like the preceding one, aims to develop and refine further the phenomenological analysis of Political Culture. Here, however, we are concerned not to extend the analysis beyond the scope of existing Political Culture research, but to show how it can be used in the evaluation of recent and novel examples of that research. In part, the argument to follow will illustrate the use of the phenomenological analysis as a critical tool, as we investigate developments in the Political-scientific use of Political Culture, particularly the impact of anthropological structuralism and its derivative, the ‘grid/group’ typology of Mary Douglas. In the latter half of the chapter, however, a more positive argument is made. We will examine the use of Political Culture in American historiography, a setting in which the concept has in recent years undergone a rapid rise in popularity. The best of these uses, we will argue, illustrate not only the utility but also the detailed form of a phenomenological analysis of Political Culture.
Jeffrey W. Hahn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture
British Journal of Political Science, 1991Co-Authors: Jeffrey W. HahnAbstract:This article assesses the presence or absence in Russia of a Political Culture compatible with the emergence of democratic institutions. It offers a test of the thesis that Political Culture may be an important variable linking economic development to transitions to democracy. On the basis of findings from a systematic random sample of opinions about politics in the city of Yaroslavl' in March 1990, the article finds little support for the argument that Russian Political Culture today is dominated by the autocratic traditions of the past. Rather, the patterns that emerge suggest that Russian Political thinking comes closer to what is found in Western industrial democracies.
Zhou Jing-wen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Leap of Political Culture and the Transformation of Governmental Role
Journal of Nanjing University, 2002Co-Authors: Zhou Jing-wenAbstract:After termination of the closed-door policy, reform not only brought industrial and information civilization, but also caused the co-existence and interaction of cultural elements of the traditional society, industrial society and information society in the Chinese Political Culture system. In the field of Political Culture are found the jumping studies of Political thought, complex and cont radictory Political mentalities, transitional administrative Culture, and the switching roles of mass media. This transitional state of Political Culture places government in a dilemma when it transforms its role. On the one hand, the government should improve its capabilities in responding to and lead ing external Political Culture; on the other hand, we should create a new Political Culture by making up a missed lesson, looking back and facing the facts to fulfill the transformation of government role.
Björn Weiler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture - Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture
2007Co-Authors: Björn WeilerAbstract:Weiler, Bjorn, Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp.xvi+235
