Political Culture of Kuwaiti High School Students: a Comparative Study of Government and Private Foreign Curriculum Schools.
Early studies in political culture emerged as a partial interest in the behaviorist movement in 1950's and 1960's. Behaviorism focuses on the human being and his behavior as basis for the political process. As a result, a number of political culture studies about a variety of societies appeared. Amo...
| Publicado en: | DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 35 - 36 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spr 2006
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