Political Culture

Roberto Cartocci

Political culture consists of a relatively coherent repertoire of cognitive and evaluative models that enable members of a political community to give sense to their role as political actors, to other political actors, to the community they belong to, and to the institutional structure in which they live. Thanks to this framework, they can decide which objectives to pursue and shape their actions and behaviors accordingly. Political culture has the following features: a. it is a shared legacy accumulated over time; b. it consists of a collection of solutions that have proved, with experience, to be effective in solving problems concerning human survival, adaptation to the external environment, and internal integration; and c. it is transmitted to new members of the political community through socialization. Political culture has two fundamental constituents: 1. Cognitive models —that is, a population of concepts enabling the imposition of an order on the world through ...

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