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Political culture: a theory in search for methodology. An editorial

Authors: Camelia Florela Voinea, Martin Neumann

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Political culture theory has passed through several periods of intensive development and high interest from both social and political science research (Seligson 2002; Eckstein 1988; Elkins and Simeon 1979). Its success has been based on the explanatory power of its arguments regarding the intermediate role culture plays in the relation between the citizens and the dynamics of the polity structure, organization and operation. It has also known long periods of critics and harsh denials of its very explanatory power, philosophical backgrounds, and methodological means (Welch 2013; Steinmetz (1999); Jackman and Miller 1996; Reisinger 1995; Pateman 1971; Lijphart 1980; Dittmer 1977). One such critical aspect is that political culture theory does not actually provide for an ontology and epistemology of its own, it just suggests dimensions of comparative analysis without having fundamentally specified what it is and how it works (Welch 2013). Moreover, it employs attitude measurements and evaluations of attitudes’ impact on political behavior or action deliberation without actually having provided for attitude operationalization. Attitude research has ever since developed an impressive conceptual and methodological endeavor for achieving an operational form of the attitude structure as it has been defined by Allport (1929, 1935). The spectacular historical development in attitude fundamental and methodological research has not been closely followed by similar efforts in political culture theory and methodological research. Another critical aspect is that political culture theory has not integrated culture and state studies in a unified conceptual and operational framework (Steinmetz 1999). …

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Title: Political culture: a theory in search for methodology. An editorial
Authors: Camelia Florela Voinea
Martin Neumann
Publication date: 11-10-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Quality & Quantity / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00942-1

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