The Civic Culture : Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations / Gabriel Abraham Almond, Sidney Verba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almond, Gabriel Abraham, author.

Verba, Sidney, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Center for International Studies, Princeton University ; 1943

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--1945-1960.

Social history.

Social participation.

Political psychology.

Political participation.

Political culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (575 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART I. The Theory and Method of the Study

Chapter 1. An Approach to Political Culture

Chapter 2. Cross-National Research and Political Behavior: Some Considerations of Method

PART II. Patterns of Political Culture

Chapter 3. Patterns of Political Cognition

Chapter 4. Feelings Toward Government and Politics

Chapter 5. Patterns of Partisanship

Chapter 6. The Obligation to Participate

Chapter 7. The Sense of Civic Competence

Chapter 8. Citizen Competence and Subject Competence

Chapter 9. Competence, Participation, and Political Allegiance

PART III. Social Relations and Political Culture

Chapter 10. Social Relations and Civic Cooperation

Chapter 11. Organizational Membership and Civic Competence

Chapter 12. Political Socialization and Civic Competence

PART IV. Profiles of Political Culture

Chapter 13. Group Differences in Political Orientation

Chapter 14. Five Political Cultures

PART V. Conclusion

Chapter 15. The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability

Appendix A. Sampling and Sampling Error

Appendix B. Interview Schedules

List of Tables and Figures

Index

Notes:

"Center for International Studies, Princeton University."

Includes index.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691651682

069165168X

9781400874569

1400874564

OCLC:

966819165