There was a whole political culture that had to change.

It is based on culture, political ideals, and policies.

Until now, populism has been the missing note in African political culture.

But meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism.

Britain s highly centralized political culture has been irreversibly changed.

The domestic political and legal culture was still not ready to face squarely the ghosts of the authoritarian past.

One reason for this inertia can be found in Libya s prevailing political culture.

Russia s somewhat archaic political culture overly personifies power.

Both at national and provincial level, it appears that the political culture and terms of employment constitute the chief obstacles to women taking up political office.

The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite s rampant corruption.

As a result, a new political culture conducive to accountability may have a realistic opportunity to grow.

The topics vary between social and political issues like sex education in schools, protecting the environment, and reforming the economy, were among the those discussed.

But the culture that Saddam created convinced Iraqis that political connections are the only way to gain authority, money, and knowledge.

The NDP appears to believe that democratization must begin with changing the political culture and instilling democratic values.

Resolving that conflict itself a key aspect of Arab political identity might enable Arab political culture to change.

He would be forced to join Russia s pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country s toxic political culture.

Lack of political education and political maturity proved to be a major challenge for the reform process towards a full fledged democracy.

The key to our domination of the planet is culture, and the key to culture is religion.

Culture sector

Culture Sector

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said the prevailing political culture could explain women's low participation rate in politics despite Turkey's early leadership role in women's rights the political parties did in fact wish to increase the role played by women in the political process.

Philosophy of culture is a branch of philosophy that examines the essence and meaning of culture.

The successive political regimes have always promoted artistic creation, and the creation of the Ministry of Culture in 1959 helped preserve the cultural heritage of the country and make it available to the public.

Getting Bank Culture Right

Medal for culture, Yemen

Education and Culture

11. Acknowledges the contribution of the Melanesian Cultural Centre to the protection of the indigenous culture of New Caledonia

They are lower for Anglo, Nordic, and Chinese culture countries.

The Chinese culture embodied in the daily lives of 23 million Taiwanese of whatever political beliefs was not so easily eliminated by decree.

In the first part, the speaker highlighted and tried to disentangle the complex concept of political involvement, which is a matter more of learned behaviour than of spontaneous impulse, an inclination that springs from group culture, from practices that have been institutionalized and established over time.

History The European Capital of Culture programme was initially called the European City of Culture and was conceived in 1983, by Melina Mercouri, then serving as Greek Minister of Culture.

NF I think the fiscal crisis that we see in the developed World right now both sides of the Atlantic is essentially the same thing taking different forms in terms of political culture.

One man rule has been so completely embedded in North Korea s political culture and system that it is difficult to expect collective leadership to succeed.

Such clout as the neo cons wielded under Bush is unusual in the political culture of the US, which is noted for its skepticism toward intellectual experiments.

Moreover, Senegal's goal of promoting gender equality in culture, the socio economic realm, the judiciary and the political arena coincided with the objectives contained in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

55 192. Culture and development

(c) Fostering a democratic culture

57 249. Culture and development

Culture and cultural activities funding

Ministry of the Culture, Youth and Sports

(d) Culture and development (continued)

Commission on Human Rights resolutions

Unless Arab political culture is shown to be uniquely and permanently inimical to electoral competitiveness, it makes more sense to understand the democratic divide in the Muslim world in terms of the political as opposed to the ethnic or religious particularities of the Middle East and North Africa.

And culture. Culture is the most important thing, I would say, because that's what brings joy to life.

During the German Presidency of 1999, the European City of Culture programme was renamed the European Capital of Culture.