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Political culture in Italy

Abstract

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This project is an attempt to define both culture and political culture, and thus enable Italian subcultures to be identified. The paper discusses the "meaning" of political subcultures regarding the levels and styles of political participation in Italy_ It does so primarily from a sociohistorical perspective. It also offers a critique of the methods of analysis commonly used in Political Science. The aim of the first part is to offer a reliable theoretical background concerning the operationalization of the concept Culture. In the second part of this paper, I describe and analyze the influences of state formation on Italian political culture and subcultures. The third part of the paper is a quantitative analysis of the regional Italian subcultures. The statistical procedure is interesting and confirms the conclusions drawn from the socio-historical analysis. It shows that socio-historical forces do have tenacious influences on the levels and styles of political participation in Italy.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Political Science
Department dc:contributor.department
Political Science
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1988

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Shingles, Richard D.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Rich, Richard C.
  • Taylor, Charles L.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-04122010-083632
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42038

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Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel. Political culture in Italy. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42038