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1. Define political culture, describe its utility, and explain the roots of Texas political culture. Political culture is a shared framework of values,beliefs,and habirs of behavior in regards to government and politics in a community. Political culture permits a simplification of the major uniform political ideologies of places. The roots of Texas political culture is a mixture of “Old South” and “Frontier” of shared experiences with Southern states in the realm of slavery, defeat in the civil war, postwar occupation, defial of citizenship rights of African Americans, and influences of living in the frontier. Some contributing factors being the separatiron of some Texaans along race in an Anglo-led political culture and a intense sense of “patiotism”. 2. Explain Daniel Elazar’s causal theory about political cultures in the U.S. Identify its mechanism, directionality, and time ordering. The theory was for why different geographic regions of the US held largely uniform political ideologies. The idea is that ideas express a specific causal mechanism that best describes one elegant and offers a lot of explanatory power while ignoring unexplained aspects of the theory. The conclusions are based on the current time that the theories are made and refer to.

3. List 2 reasons that others might have identified as to why Elazar’s theory was problematic. -

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Everyone that had a voice was not native (we are all immigrants) and everyone brought their own ideas and ways to the locations they moved. [When people may have been born into the locations they live in actuality] Immigrant groups kept their culture Multiple casualty may be the true effect People groups did not settle within borders

4. Draw and fill in a matrix listing for each of Elazar’s three types of political culture all of the following characteristics: a summary statement, the role of government, qualifications for governing, motivator of individuals, role of corruption, view on political competition, purpose of elections, and the view of the civil-service bureaucracy. Individualistic: -

Material self-interest Marketplace & individual initiative is primary

Moralistic: -

Public interest & positive force Commonwealth Politics revolves around issues Civil-service bureaucracy is favored

Traditionalistics: -

Utilitarian: serve the elite Maintain existential social order and economic hierarchy Politicians have a family obligation to govern Politics is competition between rival factions within elite not class-based parties Civil-service bureaucracy is viewed with suspicion because it interferes with personal relationships

5. Identify the in-type consistency across its characteristics. Most places are hybrid of two and not just one type. 6. Describe Elazar’s classification of Texas and how that can be easily recognized. As individualistic & traditionalistic: -

A long history of one-party rule Liow levels of voter turnout Social and economic conservatism

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Strong support for private businesses Opposition to big government interference Faith in individual initiatives over government “programs”

7. Identify the general regions of the US where Elazar labeled each of his types. -

NorthEast: Moralistic South East: Traditionalistic NorthWest: Moralistic

8. Characterize how recent state-level data does or does not support Elazar’s theory. For Texas the type does represent Elazar’s theory currently. However, as time goes on we are expected to deviate from the theory with new immigrants moving in and change from rural to urban lifestyles....