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Oct 4, 2019 · The most powerful argument of the political culture theory was that of placing culture in the relationship between the citizens on the one hand, and the governance, state and political power, on the other hand. The theory was meant to address the democratic societies, their development and stability, and the spread of democracy throughout the ...
- Camelia Florela Voinea
- camelia.voinea@fspub.unibuc.ro
- 2020
the culturalist road to theory depends above all on the ability to produce a co-gent culturalist theory of political change: a theory consistent with the assumptions (postulates) of the approach and con-firmed by experience. Criticisms of culturalist political theories certainly have emphasized the occurrence of certain
The most telling criticism of political culture theory is that it has coped very inadequately with political change. There is a good reason for this: the assumptions of the political culture approach in fact lead to the expectation of continuity.
- Harry Eckstein
- 1988
Jun 13, 2013 · The first section, ‘Why a theory of political culture?’, outlines the controversies surrounding the concept of political culture, which involve deep disagreements among its users as well as denials by others that it has any scientific validity.
Several factors have contributed to this conclusion about the pattern of Anglo-American political participation and political culture, including the tendency for researchers into political socialization to concentrate on childhood socialization and an implicit evaluative assumption, in many discussions, about the way in which the existing system...
Eckstein introduces the political cultural approach as one of two viable options for theory in political science, the other being rational-choice theory. He then explains why the “cumulative socialization” process that he associates with culture leads to what he calls “expectations of continuity.”
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Jun 13, 2013 · Remedying the poor standing of political culture research requires the construction of theory: theory that explains what political culture is and how it works.
