is head of the Department of North American Studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA) in Havana. In 1989 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Intenational Affairs at Harvard University. He has published numerous articles about U.S.-Cuban relations and has recently coauthored, with Jorge Dominguez, U.S. -Cuban Relations in the Nineties, published by Westview Press. Haroldo Dilla is a researcher in the Department of Caribbean Studies at CEA and has published extensively in that field. Casa de las Americas has published his book on Puerto Rican Ramón Emeterio Betances. Jennifer Dugan Abbassi is a LAP coordinating editor and a graduate student in political science at the University of California, Riverside; Jean Díaz received her undergraduate degree in the same department.Ideology and political culture, conscience and social psychology are different yet interrelated concepts. Political culture is shared in a different way from ideology, being less consciously assimilated and therefore broader. In addition to systematizing a predominant ideology, the revolution has transformed Cuban culture and developed national values that, for lack of a better term, might be called a new civility.' Most Cubans have experienced neither capitalism nor the hardest years of the revolution; scarcely 40 percent of the population over 16 years old can recall that first stage. Their culture, like their ideology, is a result of the new social relations brought about by the revolutionary process. As a consequence, state protection of individual and community rights, access to social life and work, and the opportunity for individual participation-in short, the elements of this new civility that are in fact the basis of social life in general-are incorporated into the fabric of their political culture. They are social values rather than ideological principles, although ideology can and does reinforce them.What is the basis of a participatory political culture? To what extent do new values lead to participation? What is the social configuration of this participation in various areas and organizations? Do these participatory options represent real alternatives for expression and action? Without atat UQ Library on June 13, 2015 lap.sagepub.com Downloaded from
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