Civic culture
Civic culture is a term coined by Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba (1963) for the set of related political and social attitudes said to be crucial to the success of modern democracies.[1] Using what were at the time new survey research techniques, Almond and Verba studied attitudes in five countries: England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. In the process, they shifted comparative political studies away from a nearly exclusive preoccupation with constitutional analysis to the study of comparative behavior. The authors updated their perspective in 1989. [2]
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Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba. 1963. The civic culture; political attitudes and democracy in five nations. Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press.
________. 1989. The civic culture revisited. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.