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04-10-2019

Political culture research: dilemmas and trends. Prologue to the special issue

Author: Camelia Florela Voinea

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Political Culture Theory has been founded by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba in their impressive work, The Civic Culture (1963), and has been viewed ever since as one of the most debated theories in political science whose resilience against devastating criticism has impressed as much the voices defending it as the voices expressing dissatisfaction and doubt. This has resulted in periodically painful or strategic withdrawals from the front, followed by strong comebacks on the arena of political science research. The political phenomena in Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain in 1989 have been giving the latest substantial boosts to political culture research and call it once more to the front. The most powerful argument was the view upon the dynamic role political culture plays in the relationship between the citizens and the State in a democratic society. It was this idea to keep the political culture theory in the spotlight. It still is the idea which shapes the debates and set the trends. …

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Footnotes
1
For a full description, see: Voinea (2016), Political Attitudes: Computational and Simulation Modelling, Wiley, Chichester, UK.
 
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For a better understanding of the history of the attitude concept and research, see the literature selected and made publicly available by the excellent Mead Project 2.0 at url: <https://​brocku.​ca/​MeadProject/​>.
 
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Title
Political culture research: dilemmas and trends. Prologue to the special issue
Author
Camelia Florela Voinea
Publication date
04-10-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Quality & Quantity / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00943-0

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