Political Culture and non-western political ideas

Political Culture

Ideas and attitudes towards authority and governmental responsibilities structuring political behavior rather than determining it, approached by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Political Culture holds back

Social change occurs as people filter new ideas through their sense of the legitimacy of the existing political system and social order. They are often blamed for why new things don’t happen or why governments fail to deliver.

Civilian States

The shift from military-dominant governments to civilian-led political systems.

Reasons for emergence of Civilian States

Democratization Waves, Decline of military legitimacy, modernization, and norms of civil/military relations

ideological reactions against Western modernity.

Rejection of perceived impersonal individualistic values, stigmatizing the perceived immoral, condemnation of imposed Western values through colonization, and rejection of Western ideas about how societies should be organized

Organic communities

are social groups that develop naturally over time, not through planning or formal rules. They grow out of shared history, culture, traditions, and everyday life.

Second theme in non-western political ideas

liberation and emancipation

Marx´s goals

to serve the struggle against colonialism and imperialism, redirecting the classic principles of Marxist ideologies to facilitate or legitimize revolution. He wanted to establish a scientific explanation for how socialism and communism would replace capitalism.

Political Order

to the way a society is organized and governed so that there is stability, peace, and predictable rules.

Classical Liberalism

the belief that people should be free to live their own lives with minimal interference from the government