Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
UGC NET December 2015 Political Science
Which countries were the basis of the study of Almond and Verba's 'Civic Culture'?
AChile, US, UK, France, Spain
BUS, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany
CMexico, Germany, Italy, US, UK ✓ Correct
DUS, UK, Chile, Mexico, Spain
Correct answer: (C) Mexico, Germany, Italy, US, UK — Almond and Verba's Civic Culture studied Mexico, Germany, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom, so that set is the answer.
Explanation
★Almond and Verba's Civic Culture studied Mexico, Germany, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom, so that set is the answer.
★The Civic Culture, published in 1963, was the first large and systematic survey of political culture.
★It compared citizens' orientations across these five democracies to explain democratic stability.
★The study linked a balanced civic culture to the survival and working of democracy.
★Sets naming Chile, France or Spain do not match the five nations actually surveyed.
★The work combined parochial, subject and participant orientations into the civic culture mix.
★It became the founding empirical study of comparative political culture.
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