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A Culturalist Theory of Political Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Harry Eckstein
Harry Eckstein*
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University of California Irvine
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Abstract

The most telling criticism of political culture theory is that it has coped very inadequately with political change. There is a good reason for this: the assumptions of the political culture approach in fact lead to the expectation of continuity. But continuity can be reconciled with changes, though only changes of particular kinds. The nature of political changes consistent with culturalist assumptions and with the culturalist expectation of continuity are here specified by hypotheses about (1) the effects of changes in social context, whether “normal” or involving abrupt discontinuity, and (2) the effects of attempted revolutionary transformation.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 82 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 789 - 804
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988 

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