The answer to this question is the "Moralistic Political Subculture". This is developed by Daniel Elazar and focuses mainly on religious influences that spread throughout the United States. The temperance movement's efforts to use government to end the sale and consumption of alcohol in Texas and other states demonstrated the existence of a moralistic political subculture in the stated.
It began with the Spanish and Portuguese transatlantic slave trade.
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Gregory I increased the political power of the pope because he reformed and rewrote some of the aspects which were expected of the papacy, but which were things he did not want to do anymore. Upset by the privacy he used to have as a monk but which he no longer had anymore, he set out to involve himself more in the larger population's life by sending missionaries to England and by writing dialogues commenting on many different things. He also reformed and revised Roman worship of his day, which included more political power for the pope.