The civic culture political attitudes and democracy in five nations gabriel a almond sidney verba democracy is a political system in which ordinary citizens exercise control over elites and such control is legitimate that is supported by norms that are accepted by elites and nonelites in all societies of course the making of specific decisions is concentrated in the hands of very . This classic text is a comparative political study based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the greek concept of civic virtuelture the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in western nations cited extensively the book was origionall published in 1963. He is the author and coauthor of several landmark books including the civic culture political attitudes and democracy in five nations the civic culture 1963 a seminal piece in the field coauthored with sidney verba among almonds other well known works are the politics of developing areas 1960 and comparative politics a developmental approach 1966 a member of the national . The civic culture political attitudes and democracy in five nations an analytic study item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help no favorite . The civic culture political attitudes and democracy in five nations an analytic study little brown series in comparative politics little brown series in comparative politics analytic study the little brown series in anthropology authors gabriel abraham almond sidney verba edition 7 abridged publisher little brown 1965 original from university of texas digitized sep 6 2007