POLS 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Capital, American Exceptionalism, Culture War
8 Sep 2017
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Greece, serbia: political culture refers to certain assumptions about how politics are done, the traditions and institutions and attitudes towards politics, often broader cultural trends are similar, ex. Nationalism and faith: new world states, founded and populated by immigrants, tend to be less homogeneous, ex. Canada, some parts are ethnically homogenous, but toronto and. Canada: in us there seems to be a clearer distinction between political groups, they all have a political system dominant by two main political parties, ex. Canada has 5 parties, us only has two: one clear distinction is division into red and blue states/voters, in the rest of the world, red and blue left/right are switched around, some states can change colors, ex. Michigan, wisconsin: this shows how few states can be classified as red or blue anymore, can be due to immigration into those states, purple states changing states, ex. Ndp winning in alberta: changes occur in us, but not as frequently, ex.
