The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations

by Gabriel Abraham Almond, Sidney Verba

Overview

Presenting a major intellectual development in the history of the social sciences, authors Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba have updated their classical five-nation study of comparative politics. Looking back over 25 years since the study's conception, Almond and Verba address many important questions--brought out by top scholars of the field--as to the validity of the inferences drawn from their findings and the "soundness" of their study. In addition, they recognize the many substantial changes in political culture that have transpired in the five nations studied--England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United States--over the past two decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691651682
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Center for International Studies, Princeton University , #1943
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter I	The Intellectual History of the Civic Culture Concept	1
Chapter II	The Structure of Inference	37
Chapter III	The Civic Culture: A Philosophic Critique	57
Chapter IV	The Civic Culture from a Marxist-Sociological Perspective	103
Chapter V	Political Culture in Great Britain: The Decline of the Civic Culture	124
Chapter VI	The United States: Political Culture under Stress	177
Chapter VII	Changing German Political Culture	212
Chapter VIII	The Political Culture of Italy: Continuity and Change	273
Chapter IX	Political Culture in Mexico: Continuities and Revisionist Interpretations	325
Chapter X	On Revisiting the Civic Culture: A Personal Postscript	394
	Index	411