GABRIEL A. ALMOND TYPES OF POLITICAL CULTURE Myasnikova Ekaterina Group 5521
The Civic Culture • Almond and Verba distinguished different political cultures according to their level and type of political participation and the nature of people's attitudes toward politics • The Civic Culture was one of the first large-scale cross-national survey studies undertaken in political science and greatly stimulated comparative studies of democracy
Almond and Verba studied empirically the political culture of five nations (Great Britain, United States, West Germany, Italy and Mexico) through interviewing five thousand persons over five years. “When we speak of the political culture of society, we refer to the political system as internalized in the cognitions, feelings, and evaluations or its population. ” - Almond and Verba.
THEY DIFFERENTIATED AMONG THREE TYPES OF POLITICAL CULTURE: • Parochial Political Culture • Subject Political Culture • Civic Political Culture
Parochial political culture It is generally found in poor, illiterate, underdeveloped countries where people focus on their narrow (parochial) family, village, or tribe but have little sense of the national political system. Subject Political Culture It usually exists in authoritarian regimes. In this case, people are becoming aware of the larger political system but they do not participate in it. Civic Political Culture It usually exists in democratic regimes where citizens are both aware of the political system as a whole and participate in its management through voting, lobbying and defending their rights.
THE RESULTS The results were that UK and USA were the most participatory, civic and democratic of the five countries. Germany and Italy occupied intermediary levels on these scales and Mexico was the least democratic with large numbers of people falling into the parochial and subject categories. The full result is: • Mexico • Italy Parochial culture Parochial-subject culture • Germany Subject culture • Britain Subject Participant culture • USA Participant culture
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