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What is the Toquiville of on the American Deomcracy? |
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1. Abundant and fertile soil for democracy to grow
2. No feudal aristocracy; minimal taxes; few legal restraints
3. Westward movement; vast territory provided opportunities
4. Nation of small, independent farmers
5. "Moral and intellectual characteristics," today called political culture
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| distinctive and patterned way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out |
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| What are the four elements of the American political system? |
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1. Liberty
2. Democracy
3. Equality
4. Civic duty |
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| How do very unpopular groups survive? |
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1. Most people do not act on beliefs
2. Usually no consensus on whom to persecute
3. Courts are sufficiently insulated from public opinion to enforce protection |
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Belief that system will respond to citizens
Not shaped by particular events
Declined steadily through the 1960s and 1970s |
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Ability to understand and indluence events
About the same as in 19580s
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| Citizens capacity to understand an influence political events. |
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| How does culture wars differ from political system? |
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Money is not at stake
Compromises are almost impossible
Conflict is more profound
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| What are causes of apparent decline in confidence? |
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Vietnam
Watergate
Clinton's sex scandals |
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| What is the importances of the culture war? |
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a. More people consider themselves progressives than previously
b. Rise of technology makes culture war easier to wage |
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