The Civic Culture Revisited
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Presenting a major intellectual development in the history of the social sciences, Almond and Verba have updated their classical five-nation study of comparative politics. Looking back over twenty-five years since the study's conception, Almond and Verba address many important questions--brought out by top scholars of the field--as to the validity of the inferences drawn from their findings and the "soundness" of their study. In addition, they recognize the many substantial changes in political culture that have transpired in the five nations studied--England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United States--over the past two decades. The contributing authors to this book are among the best in the field of comparative politics, thus making this book consistent with the scholarly precedent set forth in the first volume. Together these two books are essential resources for professionals and advanced students in political science, international relations, comparative politics, and political sociology.
Chapter IThe Intellectual History of the Civic Culture Concept1Chapter IIThe Structure of Inference37Chapter IIIThe Civic Culture: A Philosophic Critique57Chapter IVThe Civic Culture from a Marxist-Sociological Perspective103Chapter VPolitical Culture in Great Britain: The Decline of the Civic Culture124Chapter VIThe United States: Political Culture under Stress177Chapter VIIChanging German Political Culture212Chapter VIIIThe Political Culture of Italy: Continuity and Change273Chapter IXPolitical Culture in Mexico: Continuities and Revisionist Interpretations325Chapter XOn Revisiting the Civic Culture: A Personal Postscript394Index411
