Political socialization is to a great extent dependent on what we learn from our families, our education or our religion and mass media. If I talk about my personal political affiliation I support left-wing parties especially PPP. My father has always been a supporter of PPP but on my mother's side everyone supports PML-N and Zia-Ul-Haq, that's probably because they are 'jhalandhri araen' as was Zia. But my opinions are not based on what my father taught me I have always been interested in our political history and based on what I read in history books and what I saw on media I started supporting PPP. Though our media until recently never portrayed a positive image of PPP, because BB didn't believe in investing billions of rupees in media. But i guess now they have also started to invest in those 'paid ads' that are run on different channels showing public service done by different political parties.
That's because I clearly don't support TTP and their ways and any political party that has any kind of relations with these militant groups I can never support them. Charismatic domination as explained by weber can also be termed as a factor in shaping our political opinions for example one of my uncle's converted to a deobandi because he supported Zia, this shows the extent to which people relate to their ideals.
There are different factors that lead to revolution most important being the failure of 'ruling class' to deliver to it's people. But their may be other factors as has been pointed out in the reading as 'government's control getting loser on people' etc. But revolutions do not necessarily lead to a reform in the society. Egypt's example is in front of us, people of Egypt clearly didn't get anything good out of that revolution. Anything, any propaganda or conspiracy might lead to revolution and their can be several kinds of results of a revolution.
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A lot of PPP supporters are influenced by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's personality and hence he has charismatic domination over them. This is clearly reflected in the fact that even after many years of his death they continue to support his party. Transformational leaders like Bhutto are very rare and they clearly have stature a great many deal.
A lot of PPP supporters are influenced by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's personality and hence he has charismatic domination over them. This is clearly reflected in the fact that even after many years of his death they continue to support his party. Transformational leaders like Bhutto are very rare and they clearly have stature a great many deal.
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