1. Um es an dieser Stelle noch einmal ganz deutlich zu machen und die bis heute in der Bundesrepublik “in fast gespentischer Weise” repetierten “alten Mißverständnisse” (KAASE) zur angeblichen Idealisierung der anglo-amerikanischen Demokratien richtigzustellen, sei noch einmal auf ALMOND/VERBA (im Original!) verwiesen, die in ihrem Vorwort zu “The Civic Culture” betonten: “Our study will suggest that there exists in Britain and the United States a pattern of political attitudes and an underlying set of social attitudes that is supportive of a stable democratic process… Even more important, our conclusions ought not to lead the reader to complacency about democracy in the first two nations, Britain and the United States. As long as full participation in the political system and access to the channels of social betterment are denied to significant segments of their populations, their democratic promise remains unfulfilled.” Vgl. G.AIMOND/S.VERBA, 1963, The Civic Culture, Princeton, S.VII f.
2. Als ein Beispiel sei hier auf L.DITTMER verwiesen, der betont
3. the conceptual advantages of political symbolism seem in many ways tailor-made to compensate for the weaknesses of current conceptions of political culture. Most importantly political symbolism provides an empirical variable to be analyzed (i.e. symbols) which is closely related to both political psychology and political structure, but has a degree of autonomy from either.“ Vgl. L.DITTMER, 1977, Political Culture and Political Symbolism: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis, in: World Politics, Vol.29, No. 4/1977, 5. 552–583.
4. Vgl. G.ALMOND/S.VERBA (eds.), 1980, The Civic Culture Revisited, Boston.
5. Vgl. S.VERBA, 1980, On Revisiting the Civic Culture: A Personal Postscript, in:G.ALMOND/S.VERBA (eds.), The Civic Culture Revisited, Boston 1980, S. 395.