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The authors interviewed over 5,000 citizens in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. to learn political attitudes in modem democratic states. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The intellectual history of the Civic Culture concept / Gabriel A. Almond -- The structure of inference / Arend Lijphart -- The Civic Culture : a philosophic critique / Carole Pateman -- The Civic Culture from a Marxist-sociological perspective / Jerzy J. Wiatr -- Political culture in Great Britain : The decline of The Civic Culture / Dennis Kavanagh -- The United States : political culture under stress / Alan I. Abramowitz -- Changing German political culture : continuity and change / Giacomo Sani -- Political culture in Mexico : continuities and revisionist interpretations / Ann L. Craig and Wayne A. Cornelius -- On revisiting The Civic Culture : a personal postcript / Sidney Verba
This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.
A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas. Civic Culture and Urban Change analyzes the Dallas government’s adaptation to shifts in its demography and economic structure that occurred after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The book examines civic culture as a product of a governing regime and the constraints it placed on the capacity of the city to adapt to changes in its population, economy, and the distribution of political power. Royce Hanson traces the impact of civic culture in Dallas over the past forty years upon the city’s handling of major crises in education, policing, and management of urban development and shows the reciprocal effect of those responses on the development of civic capital. Hanson relates the city’s civic culture to its economic history and political institutions by following the progression of Dallas governance from business oligarchy to regency of professional managers and federal judges. He studies the city’s responses to school desegregation, police–minority conflicts, and other issues to illuminate the role civic and organizational cultures play in shaping political tactics and policy. Hanson builds a profile of political life in Dallas that highlights the city’s low voter turnouts, sparse civic and political networks, and relative lack of multiracial institutions and mechanisms. Civic Culture and Urban Change summarizes the "solution sets" Dallas employs in dealing with major issues, and discusses the implications of those findings for the future of effective democracy in Dallas and other large cities.
This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics, illustrating various manifestations of a transition from "allegiant" to "assertive" citizens.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme allgemein und im Vergleich, Note: 2,0, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Politische Kultur (Analyse und Vergleich), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die schriftliche Ausführung des Referates mit dem Titel „The Civic Culture - The Original“. Es ist eine deskriptiv angelegte Arbeit, welche die Logik, die Prämissen und die Ergebnisse der Studie zusammenfasst. Grundsätzlich beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit der Studie selbst und nicht mit deren theoretische und praktische Weiterentwicklung. Eine Replikation der Kritik an der Konzeption und Durchführung wird hier nicht geleistet, da diese so zahl- und facettenreich ist, dass mehrere Aufsätze dieser Art sich damit beschäftigen müssten. 1 Die Civic Culture-Studie wurde zwischen 1959 und 1963 von den amerikanischen Politologen Gabriel Almond und Sidney Verba durchgeführt. Ihr Vorgehen und ihre Ergebnisse sind in der 562- Seiten starken Monografie „The Civic Culture. Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations“ erfasst. Bei der Planung und Operationalisierung der experimentartigen, komparativen Demokratie-Studie erhielten Almond/Verba Unterstützung von renommierten empirischen Sozialforschern ihrer Zeit, wie etwa Lijphardt, Rosenberg und Lazarsfeld. Das Werk gilt als Pionier-Arbeit und ihre Autoren gelten als (moderne) Begründer der Politischen Kultur-Forschung. In der allgemeinsten Form (Minimal-Definition) bezeichnet Politische Kultur die subjektive Dimension der sozialen Grundlagen politischer Systeme, wobei angenommen wird, dass Einstellungen und Verhalten der subjektiven Dimension veränderbar und lernbar sind. Das Interesse an Politischer Kultur, an der Betrachtung des einzelnen Menschen und seinen Einstellungen innerhalb der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft entstand in den 50er und 60er Jahren. Seitdem rangiert Politische Kultur als globaler, sozialwissenschaftlicher Sammelbegriff, als Nominaldefinition, die je nach wissenschaftlicher Zuordnung eine spezifische inhaltliche Ausfüllung (Referenz) erhält. Iwand, der 1983 einen gründlichen Bericht zur Studie sowie zu deren Rezeption und Weiterentwicklung vorlegte, benennt 14 verschiedene Referenz-Möglichkeiten des Begriffs. [...]
In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and `subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to searching critiques by appropriate scholars'.