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Do Political Scandals Matter In West Germany? Social Movements, Party Democracy And Political Culture In The Seventies And Eighties

Do Political Scandals Matter In West Germany? Social Movements, Party Democracy And Political Culture In The Seventies And Eighties

Author(s): Jost Halfmann / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/1989

Keywords: Social Movements; Political Culture

Political scandals have become an almost daily event in West Germany. In the past years, politicians engaged in "mud-slinging" campaigns to safeguard their political position ("Waterkantgate": the Barschel-affair of 1987); they have accepted gifts from the business community during the licensing procedure for a private gambling casino (the Albrecht/Hasselmann-affair of 1988 in Lower Saxony); and corporate leaders have attempted to bribe politicians into granting tax exemptions for financial transactions (the Flick -affair of 1982/3). In all these cases political scandals have been tediously absorbed by the political process. Parliamentary commissions of inquiry manage the exploration of the facts and provide the material for partisan political dispute; the media expose the moral aspects of the affairs; politicians explain that the democratic process functions because the commissions uncover the truth; and the general public observes the whole process with seemingly little concern.

Holocaust and Political Culture in the Postcomunist Era

Holocaustul şi cultura politică a postcomunismului

Author(s): Dan Pavel / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 102-103/2003

Analiza modului în care indivizii, colectivitat ile si societatile se raporteaza la formele de manifestare ale raului relativ sau absolut în politica (de la dictaturi si terorism la regimurile totalitare responsabile de Holocaust sau represiunea genocidara comunista), obliga la redefinirea conceptului de cultura politica1 . Astfel, conceptul de cultura politica are o dimensiune sincronica si sistematica (scoasa în evidenta de abordarile clasice conventionale sau neconvent ionale, de la Almond & Verba la Ken Jowitt), dar si una diacronica si discontinua (pe care un autor precum Robert C. Tucker o pune doar partial în evidenta când analizeaza cultura politica a leninismului sau pe cea a stalinismului).

Political Culture in Bulgaria Today

Zur politischen Kultur im heutigen Bulgarien

Author(s): Sonja Schüler / Language(s): German / Issue: 02/2008

In view of Bulgaria’s monocentristic past and in view of manifold problems and challenges concerning the transition period, the fulfilment of the EU’s political and macroeconomic stability criteria and Bulgaria’s accession in 2007 represent in many regards an important progress in the country’s post-socialist development process. Democratic rights, freedoms and institutions have been introduced and market-oriented structures and mechanisms have been set up. However, there are still enormous discrepancies between the legal and institutional framework and its effective operation both on the socioeconomic and the political level. The article deals with the characteristics and the social perception of political institutions in Bulgaria and analyzes the background of the rising political influence of populist movements in the country.

Hungary: The Culture of Remembrance and Political Conflicts

Ungarn: Erinnerungskultur und politische Konflikte

Author(s): Krisztián Ungváry / Language(s): German / Issue: 03-04/2013

Keywords: culture of remembrance; democracy; law; Hungary; FIDESZ; Jobbik

The culture of remembrance pursued by the state has always mirrored the concepts of democracy and law of those in power. It also reflects the political structure in the respective countries. For three years Hungary has been led by a government that describes itself as anti-communist and centre right, despising its predecessors as post-communists. A closer analysis shows in how far this definition is justified. It should be noted that the culture of remembrance in Hungary differs strongly from those in West European countries regardless of the single parliamentary terms. The differences might be explained by the particular Hungarian past and the relatively short period of political freedom since 1990. One special feature of the policy of remembrance pursued by the FIDESZ party in Hungary is that it is indistinguishable in its contents from the cultural program of the neo-national socialist Jobbik party. In order to conceal those very problematic contents FIDESZ performs a double culture of remembrance with a double media landscape: Both the moderate as well as the radical national socialist voter will be satisfied with the offers that are directed centrally by the government. It would be wrong to suppose that FIDESZ offers its cultural program to its biggest competitor (Jobbik) because it intends a coalition government with this party. On the contrary: The policy of remembrance in Hungary also serves to bind the electorate of the other parties.

Political Culture in the Czech Republic

Politická kultura v České republice

Author(s): Zdena Šilerová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2005

Keywords: Czech Republic; political culture; students

The author starts with the analysis of the traditions of the research of political culture in the Czech Republic and she characterises the main streams and authors. Then she presents the results of the research among the university students that was organised during the autumn 2002 and spring 2003 on four Czech universities. She compares the results with the results of public opinion polls of the representative sample of the Czech population. She concludes that although there are some differences comparing the students and Czech population as a whole, these differences are not very relevant.

THE EFFIGY OF ENEMY IN THE POLITICAL CULTURE

WIZERUNEK WROGA W KULTURZE POLITYCZNEJ

Author(s): Wojciech Buchner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: hostility; enemy; Reformation; revolution; ideology; tolerance; values; humanitarianism

The article is an attempt to explain the phenomenon of hostility in the political culture since at least the early modern era. The author argues that the image of the enemy in western political culture is being dehumanized because of his axiological depreciation. This phenomenon is analysed by using the method of the history of ideas, resorting to examples of the Reformation, religious wars and the French Revolution. Formerly these events brought about the escalation of hostilities in the public life, and today they create the veiled ideological standards of tolerance, human rights and false humanitarianism.

What about culture?The importance of culture in the strategic-political and the tactical-operational levels in Bundeswehr operations abroad

What about culture?The importance of culture in the strategic-political and the tactical-operational levels in Bundeswehr operations abroad

Author(s): Maren Tomforde / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2014

In the past, the cultural dimension of operations abroad either went largely unnoticed or was examined with regard to specific topical aspects. The central issues of analyses were, for instance, intercultural training at domestic military bases, interaction with the local population in the theater, or the coincidence of quite diverse military cultures in multinational units.Based on an evaluation of pertinent literature and my own field research, this article seeks to take another look at the correlation between culture and operations abroad. Using the operation in Afghanistan as an example, it analyzes the claim that a profound reflection on the role of the local culture in the field is necessary and should be of central importance to individual soldiers and to commanders, and should also be recognized at the politico-strategic level at home.

What Role for Culture and Paradiplomacy in the European Union?

What Role for Culture and Paradiplomacy in the European Union?

Author(s): Edina Lilla Mészaros / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2016

Keywords: culture; paradiplomacy; EU

Review of: Stoica Alina, Ioan Horga and Manuela Tavares Ribeiro. Culture and Paradiplomatic Identity: Instruments in Sustaining EU Policies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8734-X.

Bulgarian Intelligentsia and the Reforms in the Sphere of Culture at the End of 1980s.

Bulgarian Intelligentsia and the Reforms in the Sphere of Culture at the End of 1980s.

Author(s): Evgenia Kalinova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2015

Keywords: culture; intelligentsia; reforms;

At the end of 1980s the effects of the Second Cold war and Gorbachev’s “perestroika” force Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov to attempt to overcome the economic crisis and to remain in power through quick and large-scale economic reforms. Until the summer of 1987 Zhivkov unsuccessfully seeks Soviet approval of Bulgarian reforms. Without it, he is forced to react quickly. The new model, known as the “July concept”, is approved in July 1987 and charts a way towards limited pluralism in the economic and political spheres. The Bulgarian intelligentsia shakes off its apathy. In 1988 it emerges openly on the political scene, which forces the authorities to pay particular attention to it, alongside economic and ethnic problems. The present paper deals with these reforms and the relations between the regime and the intellectuals until the end of the state socialism.

The Evaluation of Public Policies from the Perspective of the Agenda 21 of Culture: a Case Study

The Evaluation of Public Policies from the Perspective of the Agenda 21 of Culture: a Case Study

Author(s): María Aracely Mendívil-Portillo,Luz Cecilia Gálvez-Bon,Juan Pedro Ibarra,José Guadalupe Soto-Karass / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/2017

Keywords: culture; public policies;

This research shows the results of the implementation of a public cultural policy at the municipal level and has as a main objective to evaluate, from the perspective of the agenda 21 of culture, the program "Art for social development" by the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture developed in a secondary-level boarding school located at the Topolobampo community, in the municipality of Ahome, Mexico. A QUAN-QUAL methodology was used with instruments like questionnaires applied to the young participants and interviews with the workshop facilitators and administrative staff. Guitar, painting and theatre workshops were given, through which the development of new artistic expression skills was achieved, as well as contributing to the strengthening of social behaviors such as tolerance, patience and interpersonal communication, among others. It was found the constant need of having permanent programs of integral training, both in the field of artistic training and socio-emotional, giving priority to groups at risk, such as students of the boarding school that mostly come from families of scarce resources, some of the low performance academic and aggressive behavior. The conclusion is that public policies are required to promote greater articulation of education and culture in order to have a stronger impact on the social and cultural inclusion of young people.

The Role of Culture in the Sustainable Development of Voivodships in Poland

The Role of Culture in the Sustainable Development of Voivodships in Poland

Author(s): Grażyna Krzyminiewska,Hanna Pondel / Language(s): English / Issue: 4 (44)/2017

Keywords: culture; sustainable development; voivodships; taxonomic method

The purpose of the study is an attempt to assess the importance of culture for the sustainable development of Polish voivodships. For the purpose of this research, a taxonomic method was used to distinguish areas similar to one another in terms of the characteristics examined and to group them into regions with similar development conditions. On the basis of the analysis of the source data and the set of synthetic indicators of sustainable development it can be stated with certainty that cultural activities (in terms of institutional approach) taken in Polish voivodships are important for the level of their sustainability.

From metaphysical to political: Does political culture make Rawls’s principle of tolerance morally relativistic?

From metaphysical to political: Does political culture make Rawls’s principle of tolerance morally relativistic?

Author(s): Bojan Vranić / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2017

Keywords: Moral relativism; political culture; Rawls; political liberalism; metaphysics; concepts;

Te aim of this paper is to analyze Rawls’s conception of political (public) culture, exploring whether his principle of tolerance (Political Liberalism) falls in moral relativism. The analysis consists of three sections. Firstly, the author introduces different critical accounts on Rawls’s theory and identifies where they go wrong. Secondly, the author delineates the intellectual tradition of social liberalism from which sprang Rawls’s conception, showing that he significantly alters the key ideas of dominant liberal justice of the Western world. In the final section of the paper it is argued that Rawls’s idea of political culture is a cornerstone of just society and the spring of tolerance, providing arguments in favor of the idea that Rawls’s conception of political liberalism is not morally relativistic but it is, however, in line with liberal pluralism.

National culture as a determinant of firms’ innovative performance

National culture as a determinant of firms’ innovative performance

Author(s): Meda Andrijauskiene,Daiva Dumčiuvienė / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: EU;innovation;culture;firm‘s performance

General innovation performance of the EU is improving, yet progress is too slow and performance gaps still remain wide within European Union. Therefore, there is a growing interest in circumstances which influence this situation. In their previous research, the authors of this paper have already proved that cultural diversity affect the innovative capacity of societies, hence the goal of thisstudy was to explore how important, in the context of other determinants of firms‘ innovative performance, are socio-cultural determinants. The results revealed that they are less relevant than technological and economic determinants but affirmed to be more significant than political, legal and ecological ones. In order to reach the conclusions, a review of scientific literature, comparative judgement of EU performance and correlation analysis were used.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND STRATEGY – A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE APPROACH

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND STRATEGY – A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE APPROACH

Author(s): Florin Lucian Isac,Eugen Remes / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: culture; strategy; management; organisations

Culture is a concept with different meanings, which is in close contact with the business world as well. Its influence on managerial activities within current organizations cannot be questioned, especially in the existing political, economic and social context. Nowadays, one of the specific ways of formulating and implementing strategies at the level of companies is related to the change of organizational culture. This paper aims to highlight, from a managerial perspective, the way in which the existing strategies at the organizational level are influenced by different cultural contexts. Sometimes strategy can be considered as a variable determined and constrained by the culture in which it is defined. It is not limited to the reflection and expression of culture but rather influences and changes it.

Culture and its Creators – Challenges and Financial Issues

Culture and its Creators – Challenges and Financial Issues

Author(s): Joanna Posłuszna,Stella Kaczmarek / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: culture; artists; creators; sources of financing culture

Culture and its creators are the driving force of social development. The paper presents the history of financing the culture over the last three hundred years and looks at the cultural policy adopted in Poland. Traditional and modern forms of supporting cultural activities are also discussed therein, also the situation of artists on the labour market in Poland and the possibilities of future change. The fundamental questions asked by the authors are: what is the future of financing cultural activities in Poland?; how important is culture in contemporary society?; will systemic changes be introduced? The aim of the paper is to provide answers to these questions through analysis of sociological sources and reports on the current situation of artists in Poland, and to highlight the dynamics of financing culture and its creators.

Romanian Culture and its Attitude Towards Entrepreneurship

Romanian Culture and its Attitude Towards Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Ana-Maria Grigore,Andreea Mitroi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: culture; entrepreneurial culture; Romanian culture; economic growth;

The “overview” culture of the nation we live in has an overwhelming influence. A strong entrepreneurial culture is the foundation of a dynamic economy. It reflects the measure in which a certain country’s society supports the entrepreneurs’ ideas and initiatives and the way in which it can direct its young people towards a career in business by developing the necessary skills in them. Its geography and history, its Latin origin and its orthodoxy determine the diversity of the Romanian culture’s characteristics. Being positioned at the intersection of multiple national cultural influences, the Romanian culture is in itself difficult to describe. At the same time, local culture is encyclopedic, not specialized, which is very useful for the transition period, in which a business promoter has to solve a great deal of problems in the most diverse domains. Living in a culture which favours the improvisation, the Romanian entrepreneur paradoxically found it an opportunity, especially since he had started with all odds against him when compared with his Western European competitor, armed with know-how, funding or the back-up of his country of origin.

WHAT ABOUT CULTURE? THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE IN THE STRATEGIC-POLITICAL AND THE TACTICAL-OPERATIONAL LEVELS IN BUNDESWEHR OPERATIONS ABROAD

WHAT ABOUT CULTURE? THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE IN THE STRATEGIC-POLITICAL AND THE TACTICAL-OPERATIONAL LEVELS IN BUNDESWEHR OPERATIONS ABROAD

Author(s): Maren Tomforde / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Culture; Strategic-political levels; tactical-operational level; Bundeswer operations abroad;

In the past, the cultural dimension of operations abroad either went largely unnoticed or was examined with regard to specific topical aspects. The central issues of analyses were, for instance, intercultural training at domestic military bases, interaction with the local population in the theater, or the coincidence of quite diverse military cultures in multinational units. Based on an evaluation of pertinent literature and my own field research, this article seeks to take another look at the correlation between culture and operations abroad. Using the operation in Afghanistan as an example, it analyzes the claim that a profound reflection on the role of the local culture in the field is necessary and should be of central importance to individual soldiers and to commanders, and should also be recognized at the politico-strategic level at home.

REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURE IN ECoC. A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH

REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURE IN ECoC. A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH

Author(s): Maria-Crina Herțeg,GABRIELA CORINA ȘANTA CÂMPEAN / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: culture; corpus linguistics; conceptual metaphor theory; cognitive linguistics;

This paper aims to analyse the different representations of culture emerging from the European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) corpus. A second aim is to see the multiple ways in which culture is represented by the Romanian proponents of the ECoC bids. The theory we resorted to is cognitive linguistics as fostered by Lakoff and Johnson, and the method we applied is corpus-based. Our analysis relies on the ECoC corpus; more specifically, we quantitatively and qualitatively analysed the collocations pertaining to culture and the conceptual metaphors retrieved from the corpus. In our analysis, the metaphorical and non-metaphorical representations of culture emerging from the ECoC corpus reveal how the proponents of the bids perceive culture.

Political culture, social polarization and electoral behavior. The last decade in Romanian political system

Political culture, social polarization and electoral behavior. The last decade in Romanian political system

Author(s): Silviu-Petru Grecu / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: political culture; political polarization; electoral behavior; deliberative democracy; on-line media;

The aim of this paper is to emphasize the role played by the political polarization and cultural variables in predicting “political apathy” or “alienation”. In this context, the study has the main research objectives: 1. to analyze the evolution of the electoral behavior in the last decade; 2. to determine the relation between electoral behavior and cultural patterns; 3. to estimate the magnitude of the relation between political polarization, political culture and the evolution of the on-line media. The research unit is represented by the Romanian political system in a long-term statistical series among 2010-2020. Empirical findings suggest that there is a degradation of the electoral participation in the last decade, with very high level of volatile rates. Moreover, this model of political behavior is related to historical past, cultural variables and geographical distribution. In this meaning, one of the most important variable for understanding the subject culture and political alienation is represented by the political polarization. Mathematical models estimate through a multi-linear equation of regression that political polarization affects negatively the evolution of the cultural variables and participative behavior (β=−0.690,p=0.029).

The Culture of a Modernizing Traditional Society (Ethnical Aspect)

The Culture of a Modernizing Traditional Society (Ethnical Aspect)

Author(s): Anzhelina A. Koriakina / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2022

Keywords: culture; traditional society; modernization; culture of a modernizing society

The intensification of world processes has acutely raised the problem of transitional or modernizing societies and cultures. In this regard, the question of the culture of a modernizing society is actualized. In the article, the concept of “culture of a modernizing society” through the prism of modernization of a traditional society and ethnical aspect is analyzed. The explanatory cultural concept of the present day is developed. In this context, the main characteristic of a modernizing society is culture. It is revealed that culture of a modernizing society is quite plastic, multicomponent, and includes both traditional and innovative (modern) components. The Yakut culture at the modern stage is observed and it is cleared that the Yakut people are going through the final process of acculturation of the Yakut ethnos and the cultural assimilation of its large part.