A Salience Dimension of Politics for the Study of Political Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3218795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moshe M Czudnowski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 878-888 |
| Publication date | 1968-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1953437 |
| OpenAlex | W2001565705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
The present trend in the comparative study of politics is a departure from the country-by-country approach and a search for analytical models based on dimensions common to all political systems. This trend is in part based on the assumption that the construction of new concepts and conceptual frameworks for comparative politics would provide the starting point for a general empirical theory of political systems. One of the new concepts which has become common currency is "political culture." Originally proposed by Almond in 1956 and developed by Almond and Verba in The Civic Culture, the concept of political culture refers to patterns of politically relevant orientations of a cognitive, evaluative and expressive sort. It is intended to provide a researchable connecting link between the psychological tendencies of individuals and groups and the structural-functional characteristics of political systems, and to translate such concepts as "historical heritage" or "national character" into sets of cultural components more amenable to measurement and comparison across nations.The study of political culture thus involves comparisons between the orientations of social groups towards specific political objects, between those of particular groups towards different objects, and between patterns of orientations and patterns of behavior. From a methodological viewpoint, all empirical political research is comparative research; we must therefore expect to encounter the problem of the comparability of political data, and in particular, the problem of equivalence of meaning, in all areas of political study. In the comparison of cultural data across nations the requirements of equivalence of meaning are probably more difficult to meet than in any other area. Generally speaking, there are two possible sources of differences in meaning in cross-cultural data: (a) cultural differences of a non-political nature, such as language, education or the degree of frankness or "openness" of personal opinions, and (b) cultural differences of a political nature
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2009 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |