Abstract
Some of the ideas embodied in the concept of political culture are to be found already in Plato and Aristotle,1 but the terminology, ‘political culture’, would appear to have been first used by Herder in the late eighteenth century.2 It is of some interest in the context of the present volume that the term cropped up in nineteenth-century Russian historical writing,3 and that it was used by Lenin in 1920.4 However, its elaboration as a concept of modern political science — and the debate concerning its scope and usefulness — dates only from the 1950s.
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David Kaplan and Robert A. Manners, Culture Theory (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1972) p. 3 (citing A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, ‘Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions’ in Harvard University, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 1952, vol. 47).
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Brown, A. (1984). Introduction. In: Brown, A. (eds) Political Culture and Communist Studies. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17716-5_1
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