In this paper, we sought to analyze if the internet and social networks usage could be impacting constitution of an assertive political culture among young people in South Brazil. We hypothesize that although these new socialized agents are widespread young, apathy disinterest politics remain. To test our hypothesis, analyzed data from a survey conducted with secondary school students Porto Ale...

Venezuelan Evangelicals’ responses to candidates in that country’s 1998 presidential election seem to confirm the view that their political culture is inconsistent, contradictory, and paradoxical. Not only were Evangelicals just as likely as the larger population to support nationalist former coup leader Hugo Chávez, they rejected Venezuela’s one Evangelical party after it made a clientalist pa...

perspective of either political economy or political culture, which leaves the study of East Asian political systems highly underdeveloped. This paper seeks a political explanation of the emergence, characteristics, changes and future prospects of East Asian political regimes. They reveal the common nature of unipolar power in each of three forms-the one-party regime, one-man rule, and the olig...

This essay is a response to Askegaard and Linnet’s (2011) call for a greater epistemological plurality within consumer culture theory (CCT). The paper begins with a brief review of what these authors refer to as the dominant existential-phenomenological perspective and their Morinian alternative, and then presents contemporary political philosophy as another alternative. Political philosophy ha...

Differences in political orientation are partly rooted in personality, with liberalism predicted by Openness to Experience and conservatism by Conscientiousness. Since Openness is positively associated with intellectual and creative activities, these may help shape political orientation. We examined whether exposure to cultural activities and historical knowledge mediates the relationship betwe...