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Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
The objective of cultural democracy, on the other hand, is to provide for a more participatory (or populist) approach in the definition and provision of cultural opportunities. The coupling of the concept of democratization of culture to cultural democracy has a pragmatic as well as a philosophical component.
Michael David Warner (born 1958) is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for Artforum , The Nation , The Advocate , and The Village Voice .
The Civic Culture or The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations is a 1963 political science book by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. [1] The book is credited with popularizing the political culture sub-field and is considered to be the first systematic study in this field. [2] [3]
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
The idea, said Spillane from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, is that celebrities can help voters realize that it's "culturally acceptable" to ...
Gabriel Almond defines it as "the particular pattern of orientations toward political actions in which every political system is embedded". [1]Lucian Pye's definition is that "Political culture is the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments, which give order and meaning to a political process and which provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the political system".
Yes, Hollywood is as liberal as everybody says -- 'for better or for worse,' according to Alyssa Milano.