...This chapter covers the logic of authority and political culture up to Wa Region's political relations with China, Myanmar, and other Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) counterparts. It examines tactical dissonance first through these oscillations of political relations. The tenuous solidarities...

...This chapter investigates the problem of advice and advisers in the political culture of Muscovy, which was found to be vitally important to the various authors of the tales about the Time of Troubles. It shows that consultation with advisers, together with other legitimizing factors, was a crucial...

...This chapter looks at autocracy as the concept most widely used to describe the political culture of the Russian state before 1917. It explains how autocracy, understood as the unlimited rule of the monarch over his subjects, is often taken as the signature characteristic of Russian political...

...This chapter looks at the establishment of a powerful common discourse based on biblical language and motifs, both Jewish and Christian, that reinforced American public and political culture. It argues a point about modern American life: that the Bible can be used either “for the common good...

... but was accepted after the war with little public debate or dissent. However, that the war itself had something to do with this important development in Polish political culture is assumed rather than established in the historiography of modern Poland and the emerging scholarship about women and gender. Moreover...

...This book examines how romanità—translated variously as “Romanness,” “Romanity,” “the idea of Rome,” or “the Roman spirit”—shaped the political culture of Italian Fascism. It shows how the Fascist regime tried to refashion the nation into a new body politic guided by “the immortal spirit of Rome...

...This chapter examines the apex of romanità in Fascist political culture by focusing on the Mostra Augustea della Romanità, an archaeological exhibition that marked the bimillenary in 1937 of the birth of the emperor Augustus Caesar. Comprising more than 3,000 objects, the exhibition painted...

... member's need for protection, his lawful rights and his religious needs.” Over time there has been a shift in the debate in Iceland and Norway, from a focus on the kin-based society and the political institutions described in the law codes, toward the political culture and the role friendship played. Eirík...

...This chapter assesses how the political development changed the political culture and reduced the importance of friendship. Friendship lost much of its significance in Iceland when the country became part of the Norwegian realm. The new administrative system turned the chieftain's role upside down...

... differentiation that followed, Czechoslovak citizens created a new political culture, complete with its own rituals, moral codes, and myths. biblical references Kotkin Stephen Marenčín Albert Durkheim Émile emotion Gross Jan T Havel Václav Komárek Valtr Poland romance Romania sacrality totalitarianism...

...This chapter illuminates the intellectual and political culture of the early 1900s, looking at Mary Field Parton's life as fulfilling the pragmatic ideal. It focuses on Mary's adoption of the prevailing thoughts of her age and the actions these thoughts influenced. The chapter then moves away from...

...The Introduction gives an overall picture of Chengdu--the capital of Sichuan province and one of the major cultural, economic, and political centers in West China, its history, and teahouses. It defines the terms of “public life,” “public space,” and “political culture.” It generalizes the major...

..., as in Soviet Russian political culture, or for contesting that authority through the deployment of alternative discourses. instrumental view of language language as instrument instrumental view censorship communication technologies Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU essentialist view of language...

... but it has changed Singapore's political culture, including how voters understand politics, assess politicians, and approach the regime. Barisan Sosialis Socialist Front Lee Kuan Yew Operation Coldstore Singapore Goh Chok Tong institutional makeup Lee Hsien Loong People’s Action Party PAP catchall...

...This chapter explores the different ways politicians, lawmakers, and the general public perceived the place of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members in American political culture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains the difficulty Americans...

... and dynamics that not only distinguished it from the Admiralty camp but also challenged the city's political culture. First, despite sharing similar demographic features with their Admiralty counterparts, Mongkok protesters showed greater inclination to behave militantly, eschewing the civic, nonviolent...

... legitimacy through the practices described in this book—practices not dependent on communal institutions—was so successful that Rome's political elites lost interest in defending the autonomy of the Roman commune, ceding power willingly to the papacy. It was this transformation of Roman political culture...

...This chapter explores the second major challenge facing Rome's ruling elite: the transformation of the ruling group itself. It looks at the two visions of Rome that defined the city's early fourteenth-century political culture: the Rome of the barons and that of the nonbaronial urban elite...

... violence peacemaking Roman elites Roman political society Roman political elite communal institutions power Roman political culture good governance On a hot August day in the summer of 1364, a grocer named Nucio stood idly in a piazza in the contrada known as Ponte di Santa Maria...

...The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging the view, this book argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle...