American Government › Section N · State and local government › Topic N.2
State political culture
Why do some states make voting as easy as possible while others leave politics to a few? One influential answer is political culture: the beliefs a state's people share about what government is for and who should take part in it.
In this topic
- Why states differ
- Elazar's three cultures
- The moralistic culture
- The individualistic culture
- The traditionalistic culture
- Worked example: testing the theory on Minnesota
- Worked example: reading the cultures in a debate
- Putting numbers on culture
- Criticisms of Elazar's theory
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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