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• Manifestation of politics

  • Political behaviour
• Political behaviour


  Psychological: Thought, perception, judgement, attitudes, beliefs
• Political culture

  Traditional orientation of a society or group towards politics
• Participant culture


  Democracy
• Subject culture

  Authoritarian
• Three basic models of political culture

  • Parochial (low awareness, expectations and participation) Example: Mexico
• Democracy is stable when there is a mix of participant, subject and parochial cultures
• Political value


  Mental construct that defines people behaviour/attitude towards political objects
• Types of interest groups

  • Associational: trade unions i.e. MTUC
• Local issues are perceived differently
• Political socialisation


  The learning of political values and factual assumptions about politics
• Agents of political socialisation

  • Family
• Influence of family

  Families exert the first and most important influence on the formation of individual values
• Influence of mass media

  Much of the political knowledge people have comes from the mass media