elective affinity

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.
 * 2) * 2000, Milton Fisk, Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, Chapter8, pp.196-197,
 * spoke of an elective affinity between a form of religious belief (Protestantism) and a practical ethics (the work ethic of capitalism). His idea can be extended to explain how different groups come to have a basis for entering a single party.
 * 1)  The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something.
 * 2)  The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.
 * 1)  The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others.

Translations

 * Finnish: vaaliheimolaisuus
 * French: affinité élective
 * German:
 * Polish: powinowactwo chemiczne