UNDERSTANDING POLITICS: The Cultures of Societies and the Structures of Governmemts, Second Edition (2006c) is about understanding the self-contradictions in our own lives and the dynamics of our society.Societies comprise structures of political cultures, with each culture having a distinctive way of conceptualizing politics, economics, and the nature and functions of society itself. The intercultural dynamics of societies are critical to their functioning, and an understanding of political cultures and their interactions is crucial to understanding the development of societiesUnderstanding Politics provides a taxonomy of eight different political cultures (anarchism, corporatism, oligarchy, classical liberalism, radical liberalism, democratic socialism, communism, and fascism). A review of U. S. history then outlines the interplay of these cultural dynamics as they have shaped U. S. society and their ideological expressions in contemporary politics. A final section considers the necessity for political and social action and the ambiguity and self contradictions of revolution, reaction and reform.
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