Political culture

Schilling, Reliffon, Political Culture and the emergence of early Modem Europe (1992), 247-301. 

In essence, the earlier components of this overall assessment process are mainly deterministic in character (albeit with some probabilistic elements), whereas the later stages are mainly probabilistic. Not all elements of the process are quantifiable (with any degree of confidence), however and the socicii-political-cultural context of any downstream decision-making process may be intensely uncertain. Such uncertainties make the process of risk communication and debate a complex and sometimes unpredictable undertaking. It is essential therefore that those elements of the risk management process that cein be objectively einalysed and evaluated (either qualitatively or quantitatively, as appropriate) are so assessed. 

Thus, of course, the distinction between whiteness and nonwhiteness never fully lost its salience in American political culture. Mexican annexation, black Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow practices, Indian Wars, Asian immigration and Exclusion, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican annexation, and Philippine conquest—all would keep whiteness very much alive in both the visual and the political economies. But upon the arrival of the massive waves of Irish immigrants in the 1840s, whiteness itself would become newly problematic and, in some quarters, would begin to... 

It is against this backdrop that the history of political whiteness took shape and that the fluidity of certain groups racial identities became apparent. The crosscurrents here are terribly complex. The Mexican War, slavery and Emancipation, Reconstruction, Indian wars, anti-Chinese agitation, Pacific expansion, and popular accounts of Pacific, Asian, and African exploration all kept vividly alive the crucial distinction in American political culture dividing white from nonwhite populations, as did... 

Hence the rhetoric and visual lexicon of pan-white supremacy had a particular appeal in the political culture of the West from the 1870s onward. According to an 1870 tract by John Swinton, for instance, the... 

The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1983), pp. 225-243. 

To understand how Americans acquired a distinctive attitude toward firearms, it is important to remember that the political culture of the United States grew out of the English rather than continental European experience. 

Hayes, Charles, Is Taking a Psychedelic an Act of Sedition Tikkun, March/April 2002, http //www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/ tikkun/issue/tik0203/article/020313c.html. Tikkun A Bimonthly Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics, Culture, Society is a print magazine published in Berkeley, edited by Rabbi Michael Lerner. 

Milner, Anthony 1982. Kerajaan Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule. Tucson University of Arizona Press for the Asian Studies Association of Australia. 

Religion, Politics, Culture and the Emergence of Early Modem Society. Leiden, 1992. 

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