The present study analyzes what is considered to be a classical formulation of the concept of political culture in the writings of Gabriel A. Almond published in 1950s and 1960s.
The author argues that the conceptualization of political culture as proposed by Almond in the most important of these studies, the 1963 book The Civic Culture, co-authored with Sidney Verba, offers an approach to political culture, to which both political scientists and participants in political discourses should return in order to avoid some of the conceptual confusions that go hand in hand with the insufficiently reflected use of this term.