The Importance of Political Culture Theory and Research for Contemporary Political Science

Abstract

The questions of the political culture theory have become more eminent as long as several new challenges and conditions have emerged. Thus, political culture is important in order to reveal the way that opinions and stances towards specific phenomena have been developed and the role that diverse orientations have played. Consequently, we can better form some explanations towards phenomena such as populism that have been largely emerged in specific countries but the explanation of their political and social acceptance is not so simple and could be find in political culture orientations. In this short paper we will try to undrline some of the basic characteristics of political culture and connect them with the contemporary political science as well as with the theoretical and research challenges that emerge.