A parochial political culture is a

political culture Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture. Political culture is what the people, the voters, the electorates believe and do based on their understanding of the ...

where citizens have only limited awareness of the existence of central government. Parochial culture leads to the general ignorance about political subjects and a consequent lack of involvement of political activity. It may occur in regions where traditionally-

stateless societies A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state. In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority. Most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power, and they are generally not perman ...

are subject to the

jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' and 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, the concept of jurisdiction applies at multiple level ...

of a state, their limited awareness of the law contributing to the power dynamics between such communities and their state.Bainton, Nicholas A. and Skrzypek, Emilia E. “An absent presence: encountering the state through natural resource extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia” in ''The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects'', ANU Press, 2021, p02

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