Its political ideology has moved from center-left to center-right since the Rose Revolution, and combines political, economic and cultural liberalism with civic nationalism.

"It is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the centre of the storm," he said.

Despite Lebanon's cultural liberalism and economic prosperity, sectarian tensions remained as citizens identified themselves through their sects.

Of the Reagan legacy, Mr. Lasch says it included "economic conservatism and cultural liberalism."

It's hard to imagine what cultural liberalism existed in the anti-libertarian 1980's.

Family Ties reflected the move in the United States away from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s.

He wrote, "...it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

The relative cultural "liberalism" arising from this situation will be analyzed more fully later.

In the Democratic Party, this skewed the discussion away from bread-and-butter issues and toward an anti-interventionist foreign policy and cultural liberalism on such matters as abortion and women's rights.

The series, from creator Gary David Goldberg, reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s.