International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2023, 5(8); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2023.050812.
Huayi Zhang
School of Political Science and Law, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
The theory of civic culture is a research method of political culture constructed by American scholars Almond and Wiba on the basis of empirical research. By investigating the political attitudes and democratic institutions of five western democracies, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy and Mexico, this paper sums up three different Western citizen cultures. Although this theory has some shortcomings in the research methods such as sample selection and quantitative objectivity, it has exerted an important influence on comparative politics, especially on the theory of democratic development. This paper will first explain the birth background and core views of the Western civil culture theory, then point out the shortcomings of the theoretical research, and finally provide some feasible suggestions for the construction and development of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics in the new era combined with the actual situation of China's development.
Political culture; People's democracy throughout the process; Core socialist values
Huayi Zhang. The birth background and main content of western citizen culture theory and its major shortcomings. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 8: 66-71. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.050812.
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