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From the award-winning team behind the International Encyclopaedia of Political Science... Moving beyond mainstream “traditional” approaches to bring you a new advanced-level introduction to political science. A perfect introduction for postgraduates who are new to political science, as well as upper-level undergraduates looking to broaden and deepen their understanding of core topics, this progressive account: • Guides you through all key areas of political science: origins, methodological foundations, key topics, and current issues • Takes an international and pluralist perspective with all issues explored in a comparative way related to different cultural and historical contexts • Includes pulled-out descriptions of major concepts, further reading and self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter.
The social bases of politics
The social bases of politics
Key terms
- Collective memory
- Framing
- Modernization theory
- Political culture
- Social cleavage
- Social milieu
- Specific and diffuse support
- System model
Introduction
As has become apparent in the previous chapter, contemporary politics and its interpretations are embedded in broad historical, social, economic and cultural contexts, which are analysed in greater detail by the neighbouring disciplines.
In order to distinguish major sub-disciplines within political science and illustrate some of their relationships and interactions a more general ‘system’ model is useful. The model below is derived from the well-known works by Easton (1965), Almond and Powell (1978) and others, but it is used here only in a pre-theoretical classificatory sense in order to locate the different elements and possible interactions more closely without implying necessarily distinct causal relationships such as ...
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