Download or read book The Civic Culture written by Gabriel Abraham Almond and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Civic Culture Transformed written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.
Download or read book Comparative Civic Culture written by Laura A. Reese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for a theoretical framework for understanding urban policy-making has been a recurring focus of research into local governments. Civic culture is a means for understanding how municipal policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the local community, frame local goals, engage in decision-making, and ultimately select and implement public policies. While it seems that culture 'matters' in local policy making, how to measure culture in a valid and replicable fashion presents a significant challenge which the authors address in this book. They present their findings of a large multi-city research project to explore the nature of civic culture in cities in the US and Canada. The focus of their analysis is on three overarching 'systems' of community power system, the community value system, and the community decision-making system. The authors address a number of questions around the nature of civic culture and the relationships between the three systemic elements of civic culture, to refine and apply a more sophisticated theory of urban policy-making.
Download or read book The Civic Culture written by Gabriel A. Almond and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual history of the Civic Culture concept / Gabriel A. Almond -- The structure of inference / Arend Lijphart -- The Civic Culture : a philosophic critique / Carole Pateman -- The Civic Culture from a Marxist-sociological perspective / Jerzy J. Wiatr -- Political culture in Great Britain : The decline of The Civic Culture / Dennis Kavanagh -- The United States : political culture under stress / Alan I. Abramowitz -- Changing German political culture : continuity and change / Giacomo Sani -- Political culture in Mexico : continuities and revisionist interpretations / Ann L. Craig and Wayne A. Cornelius -- On revisiting The Civic Culture : a personal postcript / Sidney Verba
Download or read book The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development written by Laura A. Reese and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus on economic development policy provides a window on local decision making and allows for the development of a theory, introduced by the authors, about the role of local civic culture in framing local decisions of all types. This ultimately provides a theoretical vehicle for categorizing cities and predicting policy outcomes.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics written by Carles Boix and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by forty-seven top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of history; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of field research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of comparative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authoritarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political demands. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective action, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the workings and effects of particular institutions: electoral systems, federalism, legislative-executive relationships, the judiciary and bureaucracy. Finally, Part VII is organized around the burgeoning literature on macropolitical economy of the last two decades.
Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements written by Doug McAdam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.
Download or read book Before Norms written by Robert W. Jackman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast range of human political action stem more from institutional and structural constraints? This important new book carefully examines the role of institutions and civic culture in the establishment of political norms. Jackman and Miller methodically refute the Weberian cultural theory of politics and build in its place a persuasive case for the ways in which institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Their rigorous examination of grassroots electoral participation reveals no evidence for even a residual effect of cultural values on political behavior, but instead provides consistent support for the institutional view. Before Norms speaks to urgent debates among political scientists and sociologists over the origins of individual political behavior. Robert W. Jackman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Ross A. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University.
Download or read book The Civic Culture written by Gabriel Abraham Almond and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Civic Culture Transformed written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics, illustrating various manifestations of a transition from "allegiant" to "assertive" citizens.
Download or read book The Culture of Citizenship written by Thomas Bridges and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Politics written by Gabriel Abraham Almond and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text was created in response to demands for a brief version of the leading comparative politics text, Almond and Powell's Comparative Politics Today. The material focuses on the world-wide process of democratisation.
Download or read book Principles of Comparative Politics written by William Roberts Clark and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition, students now have an even better guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. The new edition retains a focus on the enduring questions with which scholars grapple, the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to get at the complex problems in the field. Among other things, the updates to this edition include a thoroughly-revised chapter on dictatorships that incorporates a discussion of the two fundamental problems of authoritarian rule: authoritarian power-sharing and authoritarian control; a revised chapter on culture and democracy that includes a more extensive examination of cultural modernization theory and a new overview of survey methods for addressing sensitive topics; a new section on issues related to electoral integrity; an expanded assessment of different forms of representation; and a new intuitive take on statistical analyses that provides a clearer explanation of how to interpret regression results. Examples from the gender and politics literature have been incorporated into various chapters, the Problems sections at the end of each chapter have been expanded, a! nd the empirical examples and data on various types of institutions have been updated. Online videos and tutorials are available to address some of the more methodological components discussed in the book. The authors have thoughtfully streamlined chapters to better focus attention on key topics.
Download or read book Higher Education and Civic Engagement written by L. McIlrath and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations through practices of teaching and research. Offers critical perspectives on the role of higher education institutions in terms of realizing civic missions, especially in current global market conditions.
Download or read book The Civic Culture Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations written by Stefanie Groll and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-11-05 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 2,0, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Politische Kultur (Analyse und Vergleich), 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die schriftliche Ausführung des Referates mit dem Titel „The Civic Culture - The Original“. Es ist eine deskriptiv angelegte Arbeit, welche die Logik, die Prämissen und die Ergebnisse der Studie zusammenfasst. Grundsätzlich beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit der Studie selbst und nicht mit deren theoretische und praktische Weiterentwicklung. Eine Replikation der Kritik an der Konzeption und Durchführung wird hier nicht geleistet, da diese so zahl- und facettenreich ist, dass mehrere Aufsätze dieser Art sich damit beschäftigen müssten. 1 Die Civic Culture-Studie wurde zwischen 1959 und 1963 von den amerikanischen Politologen Gabriel Almond und Sidney Verba durchgeführt. Ihr Vorgehen und ihre Ergebnisse sind in der 562- Seiten starken Monografie „The Civic Culture. Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations“ erfasst. Bei der Planung und Operationalisierung der experimentartigen, komparativen Demokratie-Studie erhielten Almond/Verba Unterstützung von renommierten empirischen Sozialforschern ihrer Zeit, wie etwa Lijphardt, Rosenberg und Lazarsfeld. Das Werk gilt als Pionier-Arbeit und ihre Autoren gelten als (moderne) Begründer der Politischen Kultur-Forschung. In der allgemeinsten Form (Minimal-Definition) bezeichnet Politische Kultur die subjektive Dimension der sozialen Grundlagen politischer Systeme, wobei angenommen wird, dass Einstellungen und Verhalten der subjektiven Dimension veränderbar und lernbar sind. Das Interesse an Politischer Kultur, an der Betrachtung des einzelnen Menschen und seinen Einstellungen innerhalb der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft entstand in den 50er und 60er Jahren. Seitdem rangiert Politische Kultur als globaler, sozialwissenschaftlicher Sammelbegriff, als Nominaldefinition, die je nach wissenschaftlicher Zuordnung eine spezifische inhaltliche Ausfüllung (Referenz) erhält. Iwand, der 1983 einen gründlichen Bericht zur Studie sowie zu deren Rezeption und Weiterentwicklung vorlegte, benennt 14 verschiedene Referenz-Möglichkeiten des Begriffs. [...]
Download or read book A Discipline Divided written by Gabriel A. Almond and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Discipline Divided is a collection of coherent and timely articles that discuss the emergence and divergence of the two dominant camps of political science: ideology and methodology. Almond examines the `hard' versus `soft' science argument, the history of model fitting in communism studies, the strengths and weaknesses of the rational choice movement and the historical forces and processes that have shaped political culture.
