The Civic Culture
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The Civic Culture or The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations is a 1963 political science book by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. The book is credited with popularizing th
Cover of the 1963 edition
Seymour Martin Lipset
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Seymour Martin Lipset was an American sociologist and political scientist. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and
The Civic Culture
…the culture's potential for developing a "sense of community and civic culture," which they saw as a necessary background for "effective democracy". Seymour Lipset wrote in The Democratic Century that Almond and Verba, "did argue persuasively that the extent of civic culture could be predicted by structural and…
Lipset in 1964
Lipset (far left) in a group discussion with August Heckscher II (second from left), Kenneth Haagensen (second from right), and Kenneth Youel (far right) c. 1960