Matrizes do pensamento culturalista: Tocqueville e Almond-Verba

Abstract

This article analyzes the culturalist approach in The democracy in America, based on some itens of the theory found in The civic culture, and in posterior works that have enhanced some of its concepts, marking similarities and differences between what could be called the two matrices of the culturalism in Political Science: Almond and Verba's and Tocqueville's. © 2009 CEDEC.