Cultural Dimension in American Politics

FAIN: FP-10211-78

Robert Kelley
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)

To examine the history of American politics and political parties as an enduring conflict of various cultural groups rather than as a conflict based purely on economic class and interest. Studying the major period of American political movements in this light, participants will see that in the Revolutionary and early national years, a cultural pattern in politics emerged, shaping the two parties in a form and nature which have continued into the present.