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Belief Systems of Colombian Political Party Activists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gary Hoskin
Gary Hoskin*
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Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo
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The relationship between ideas and political action represents a continuing, albeit frustrating, point of contention among political analysts. Referring to the literature on ideology, Robert Putnam reflects this sentiment by noting, “Few concepts in social analysis have inspired such a mass of commentary yet few have stimulated the production of so little cumulative knowledge about society and politics. The lack of cumulation is due, above all, to recurrent confusion of empirical with definitional issues and of both with normative concerns” (Putnam, 1971: 651). The proliferation of definitions, measurement techniques, and frameworks for analyzing the concept should not be surprising because “for the political scientist the term ideology points to a cluster concept, i.e., belongs to the concepts that bracket a variety of complex phenomena about which one tries to generalize” (Sartori, 1969: 398).

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 481 - 504
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Copyright © University of Miami 1979

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