The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens

By: Russell J. Dalton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110768272X
• ISBN13: 9781107682726
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"