TY - CHAP

T1 - Political culture

AU - Welzel, Christian

PY - 2007/1/1

Y1 - 2007/1/1

N2 - This chapter describes the place of the political culture paradigm in comparative politics. It outlines the paradigm's fundamental premises and assumptions and sketches how research in this field has developed. Special emphasis will be placed on where I see the greatest contribution of the political culture approach: understanding the societal fundaments of democracy and how these are transforming in the process of cultural change. In thinking about the driving forces behind democracy, the most basic assumptions of the political culture approach will be juxtaposed to those of the political economy approach. The chapter closes with some ...

AB - This chapter describes the place of the political culture paradigm in comparative politics. It outlines the paradigm's fundamental premises and assumptions and sketches how research in this field has developed. Special emphasis will be placed on where I see the greatest contribution of the political culture approach: understanding the societal fundaments of democracy and how these are transforming in the process of cultural change. In thinking about the driving forces behind democracy, the most basic assumptions of the political culture approach will be juxtaposed to those of the political economy approach. The chapter closes with some ...

KW - Politics

KW - allegiance

KW - democracy

KW - elites

KW - political culture

KW - postindustrial society

KW - postindustrialism

KW - the self

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949570941&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/71748acf-048c-33de-bf57-100ef5f6673d/

U2 - 10.4135/9780857021083.n17

DO - 10.4135/9780857021083.n17

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84949570941

SN - 9781412919760

SP - 299

EP - 318

BT - The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

A2 - Landman, Todd

A2 - Robinson, Neil

PB - SAGE Publications Inc.

ER -