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The Civic Culture
Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations

Edited by:
  • Gabriel A. Almond - Sociology, Stanford University, USA
  • Sidney Verba - Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Other Titles in:
Comparative Politics

392 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963.
 
An Approach to Political Culture
 
Patterns of Political Cognition
 
Feelings Toward Government and Politics
 
Patterns of Partnership
 
The Obligation to Participate
 
The Sense of Civic Competence
 
Citizen Competence and Subject Competence
 
Competence, Participation, and Political Allegiance
 
Social Relations and Civic Cooperation
 
Organizational Membership and Civic Competence
 
Political Socialization and Civic Competence
 
Profiles of Nations and Groups
 
The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability

Gabriel A. Almond

Sidney Verba