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Decline and Revival of Theory of Political Culture in the West
CONG Ri-yun, WANG Hui
2000, (9):
49-54.
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The Western theory of political culture was founded and boomed during the period from 1950s to the early 1970s. After that it began to decline because of criticism from theories of rational selection and Western Marxism. It was criticized as being one-sided, conservative, petrified, underestimating the function of social structure and power structure, and incapable of offering interpretations or making predictions. Then, beginning from the mid 1980s, the theory of rational selection began to decline, which was caused by the rise of social and cultural aspects of industrialization and the model of multi-culture in non Western countries, At the same time Western Marxism also began to decline. Thus, the theory of political culture was able to revive and go to prosperity again.
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