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A Culturalist Theory of Political Change

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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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  • Eckstein, Harry, 1988. "A Culturalist Theory of Political Change," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(3), pages 789-804, September.
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