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CHAPTER SIX: POLITICAL CULTURE

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a. How, if at all, does political culture enhance the stability and effectiveness of liberal democracies?

b. 'The disciplines, self-denying and achievement-oriented norms of industrial society are giving way to the choices over lifestyle which characterize post-industrial economies.’ Assess the validity and political implications of this claim by Inglehart.

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch.6.

G. Almond and S. Verba, The Civic Culture

G. Almond and S. Verba, eds, The Civic Culture Revisited

S. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Making of World Order

R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization

R. Inglehart, Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society

S. Lipset, Political Man

R. Luckham and G. White, eds, Democratization in the South, ch. by Moore

G. Marks and L. Diamond, Reexamining Democracy: Essays in Honor of Seymour

Martin Lipset

P. Norris, ed., Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Governance

S. Pharr and R. Putnam eds, Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling The Trilateral Countries?

R. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

R. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community