The book of G. Almond and S. Verba has become a model example in the field of comparative political science, which all subsequent researchers are equal. The book summarizes the results of mass surveys conducted in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Mexico aimed at studying the role of civil values and civil behavior in maintaining the democratic political system.
The concept of civil culture primarily conveys the level of awareness of the citizen of public tasks, his practical activity in their implementation. In this sense, it is a structural element of civilian life and expresses the degree of maturity of society, the ability to ensure universal interests, forms and mechanisms of developing and implementing joint decisions, agreed actions.
The authors distinguish three types of civilian culture – parochial (focused on purely local problems), where there is no concretization of political roles and where political orientation is usually not concretized; back …
Author
Almond Gabriel, Verba Syndny
Translator
Handel Eusei
Publisher
Thought, 2014
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