Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Bowling Alone, Ronald Inglehart, Gabriel Almond
31 Mar 2015
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Disagreements, disunity, and violence often lead to instability in such cultures: collectivist culture: a political culture that combines broad agreement on basic social values with limited civic and political engagement. Basic categories of political culture: important were the attitudes toward government and the participation of its citizens: almond and verba (the civic culture, 1963, parochial culture, subject culture, participatory culture. Parochial culture: people do not expect any positive actions from government, they participate little in the political system, mexico (heavy degree of corruption) Subject culture: people do expect some positive action from governments, they remain largely uninvolved in politics, cuba (largely uninvolved in political process, but generally happy with the political processes that are occurring) Participatory culture: people have high expectations of government, they expect to participate in politics, by choosing political leaders and by attempting to influence political action, united states, united kingdom, france. Modern typology for political culture: polyarchal cultures, fragmented cultures, collectivists cultures.
