Sentences with phrase «political culture has»

The degree to which liberal, collectivist and communitarian values have been seen to dominate or share Canada's political culture has depended upon the manner in which Canadian intellectual and ideological history has been interpreted.

He believes that's still the case, but notes the political culture has changed.

He said: «Our political culture has become too focused on immediate needs and demands, rather than considering our obligations to the future.

The lackluster turnout here is a sign of how stagnant our city political culture has gotten.

While an excess of ideology is unattractive, the alternative of a cynical patronage - based political culture has been proved inadequate.

Our political culture has become attached to binary «winner takes all» politics, with political argument seen as a zero - sum game, always with one winner and one loser.

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

Thus, the shared political culture has a more permanent impact on the shaping of foreign policy than the differences in social culture.

For more than one hundred years, Western political culture has been organized around labor and capital — their conflicts, their common interests, and the different strategies for harmonizing them.

American Catholics for whom the noun, not the adjective, is determinative are thus faced with a brutal fact: Our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets.

Yet our political culture has been so thoroughly shaped by a pattern of weakening that it can not accommodate this desire for the sacred.

♦ If we're a secularized country, our political culture hasn't gotten word of it.

What our political culture hasn't come to terms with is that the proliferation of right - of - center broadcasting has coincided with (probably) a smaller percentage of Americans (and especially younger Americans) hearing conservative opinions at length, in language they understand.

In refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracy.

The last suggestively argues that dominant notions of «religious freedom» in our political culture have been shaped by Protestant individualism rather than by ecclesial Christianity, with the result of playing into the hands of secularist delusions about the autonomous self.

Looking back at the last month or so of posts, I realized that the usual mix of pieces on advocacy, elections and (occasionally) digital political culture had swung almost entirely over to election coverage, and that too often I was basically chasing the story rather than trying to write something original.

In the larger world of governmental constitutions, efforts to insert U.S. arrangements into distant political cultures have failed more often than not.

Not exact matches

Though she can see why they'd want her: «I have marketplace experience, I have political experience, I have big complex experience, and I've changed cultures.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

I believe that different cultures throughout time have broken down political and social boundaries through working with each other to achieve common goals.

Second Cup has found being Canadian gives it some cachet, however: it can satisfy the allure of western culture, without the negative political associations that go hand in hand with being a U.S. multinational.

He has also been learning from the political culture of the West.

Such concerns have a stronger effect than do concerns about political culture differences between the two countries.

While this in itself would be a major victory for democracy, it is crucial that the government does not stop there, but rather works to fundamentally reform Alberta's political culture in the public interest.»

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

Today one needs to have certain ideas on hand, certain political and social habits of mind, in order to be part of the in - crowd, as Whit Stillman captured so perfectly in Metropolitan, his study of the changed elite culture in New York at the end of the 1970s.

But, for a media culture without such political commitments, this second depression has interest chiefly through the filter of élite experience.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

After a papal visit that provided a welcome rest from the cynicism of our hyper - political culture, coverage of the Pope has devolved into the familiar stories of spin and political speculation.

We had an unprecedented political election, Samsung phones were blowing up in people's hands, #Brexit entered our vernacular and some larger - than - life pop culture legends passed away.

It is not a coincidence that the claims of political correctness have found their way into the culture of addiction treatment just now.

Pornography culture has diminished and devalued women, and Christian men should not normalize this, but should speak a prophetic word against it, regardless of the political ramifications.

Are campaigning and voting the be-all and end - all of Christian political action, or are we better off diverting some of those dollars and hours to less flashy projects that have the potential to leaven political culture over the long haul?

It was, to be sure, a terrible year, replete with political violence; but it is the 1960s as a whole, the entire Sixties, that has had an enduring impact on our culture and our politics.

But too long an indulgence of the Camelot myth has had serious effects on our political culture.

The editors may well be right in their political analysis of what is happening in Miami, and the paper is legally entitled to applaud the antireligious ravings of unrepentant Stalinists, but it would become the editors to refrain from lecturing others about the incivility of speaking about the culture war which their paper is so aggressively waging.

This judicial artifact of the Sixties has had tremendous impact on our political culture.

Until now free speech claims have been safe against such erosions, by a virtual consensus of our legal culture that political speech needs most protection precisely when it offends.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

Leonard begins her remarks by saying, «It's not polite to call someone else's journal a crypto — white nationalist project, but...» Shenk insists that whatever agreements Dissent and American Affairs might have on political economy, «the culture wars aren't over.»

This opposition has been most overtly urged on political but often on intellectual grounds, and Schleiermacher's defense of Christian faith against its «cultured despisers» is a procedure that has again and again proved necessary.3

They have fiercely maintained their old ways and refused to immerse themselves in American culture — «to assimilate was to accept that the exile was over, and, on a political level, that Fidel Castro had won,» writes Rieff — but they also fully integrated themselves into the South Florida economy.

No theologian has done more to inflame Christian resentment of secular political culture» (Democracy and Tradition).

The dominant liberal utilitarian culture has been challenged many times but perhaps never by such an array of political and religious alternatives.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

Throw in an immoral political attitude of exceptionalism and imperialism, and it's no wonder that our young people, whose idealism has not yet been completely destroyed by «political reality», are looking to other cultures and beliefs for more acceptable moral standards.

Unfortunately, a whole culture has arisen in this country that denies basic scientific facts at the behest of misguided religious and political groups for both idealogical and economic reasons.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

$ 22.95 It has become a commonplace that the state of our political culture leaves much to be desired.