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Political Culture and the Study of International Organization: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges

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Resetting the Political Culture Agenda: From Polis to International Organization

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The concept of political culture does not constitute a theoretical novelty of the 20th century.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Aristotle, Politics.

  2. 2.

    See Thucydides 1972; Vlachos 1998, p. 8 in Greek.

  3. 3.

    De Tocqueville 1990.

  4. 4.

    De Secondat baron de Montesquieu 1979.

  5. 5.

    See Wilson 2000.

  6. 6.

    Almond and Verba 1989; Almond and Verba 1963; Elazar 1972; 1970 and 1999; Brown and Gray 1977; Brown 1984; Demertzis 1989 in Greek; Ebel et al. 1991; Stephen 1993; Pantelidou-Malouta 1993 in Greek; Eatwell 1997; Pollack et al. 2002.

  7. 7.

    Almond 1956, p. 396.

  8. 8.

    Parsons and Shils 1961, p. 55.

  9. 9.

    Almond and Verba 1963, p. 13.

  10. 10.

    Ibid. p. 14.

  11. 11.

    Ibid. pp. 16–18.

  12. 12.

    Ibid. pp. 5, 6.

  13. 13.

    Almond 1989, p. 23.

  14. 14.

    Pateman 1989, pp. 68–69; Craig and Wayne 1989, p. 334.

  15. 15.

    Almond 1989, p. 25.

  16. 16.

    Pye 1968, p. 218.

  17. 17.

    Pye 1965, pp. 10–13.

  18. 18.

    Brown 1984.

  19. 19.

    Brown and Gray 1977, p. 253.

  20. 20.

    Elazar 1970; 1972 and 1999.

  21. 21.

    Chilton 1991.

  22. 22.

    Orientations toward political organization, civil society, polity, political action, political economy.

  23. 23.

    Zervaki 2011.

  24. 24.

    Duffield 1998.

  25. 25.

    This project builds on the research conducted in relation to the use of political culture as an explanatory variable for the analysis of national foreign policies in Latin America. See Ebel et al. 1991.

  26. 26.

    Zervaki 2005.

  27. 27.

    Grigoriadis 2009.

  28. 28.

    Zervaki 2005.

  29. 29.

    Demertzis 1989, p. 312.

  30. 30.

    See Saussure’s distinction between historical and evolutionary linguistics. Saussure 1956, p. 16.

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Zervaki, A. (2014). Political Culture and the Study of International Organization: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. In: Resetting the Political Culture Agenda: From Polis to International Organization. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04256-5_3

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