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This new edition of the paperback version of The Civic Culture appears almost 25 years after the appearance of the first edition. In the course of its lifetime this first edition went through 14 reprintings. It is re-published simultaneously with The Civic Culture Revisited which brought the findings up to date as of 1980, and which reports the polemic which the earlier book occasioned. Author(s): Almond, Gabriel Abstract: This paper is a written version of a research colloquia presented at the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Department of Politics and Society, University of California, Irvine, November 1995. Almond discusses the development of the “Civic Culture” study and his views of political culture research since this landmark study.
Alternative Title: “The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations”
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>The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963), which surveyed 1,000-person samples in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Almond and Verba identified three types of political culture: (1) participant, in which citizens understand and take part in…
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…and books, including the groundbreaking The Civic Culture (1963). In this work, Almond and his coauthor, Sidney Verba, differentiated between political cultures in which citizens were active or inactive in civic affairs, explored the relationship between citizen participation and attitudes toward their political system, and maintained that a country’s political…
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May 13, 2011Steven Peterson rated it really liked it
This five nation study is a genuine classic and still worth reading. The focus is the nature of civic culture in these various countries. What is the nature of the culture? How does it affect politics in each country? A comparative survey research method is used, with all the challenges inherent therein. The end result provokes considerable thought as to the extent to which cultural values actually affect politics.
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Mar 08, 2011Steven Peterson rated it really liked it · review of another edition
'The Civic Culture,' authored by Almond and Verba, was a major work, appearing in the earlier 1960s. It carried out research on political culture across a number of countries. This volume represents an update on the subject. As such, it provides an important temporal temporal perspective on the study of political culture. Too seldom do political scientists track political forces over time. This is a fine effort doing exactly that.
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Shelves: comparative-politics, comprehensive-exam-books, democracy, germany, international-development, italy, mexico, the-state, united-kingdom, usa
Assesses democratic attitudes and culture in Mexico, US, UK, Italy and Germany. Uses structural functionalism. Tries to argue that US and UK have civic culture conducive to democracy and other places don't. Based on survey data.
Apr 18, 2010ehk2 added it
my very very first reading in undergraduate political science department. nice memories!
May 18, 2010Sam Snideman rated it it was ok
One of the first real attempts at cross-national public opinion measurement.
nice methodology, idiots
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Gabriel Abraham Almond
Almond was born in Rock Island, Illinois, U.S., the son of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. He attended the University of Chicago, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, and worked with Harold Lasswell. Almond completed his Ph.D. degree in 1938, but his doctoral dissertation, Plutocracy and Politics in New York City, was not published until 1998, because it incl..more