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A political culture is a distinctive and patterned form of political philosophy that consists of beliefs on how governmental, political, and economic life should be carried out. Political cultures create a framework for political change and are unique to nations, states, and other groups. A political culture differs from political ideology in that people can disagree on an ideology (what government should do) but still share a common political culture. Some ideologies, however, are so critical of the status quo that they require a fundamental change in the way government is operated, and therefore embody a different political culture as well.

Kavanagh defines political culture as "the set of values in which the political system operates".

Almond and Verba outlined four types of political culture:

• Parochial
• Subject
• Participant
• Civic

• Almond, Gabriel A., Verba, Sidney The Civic Culture. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1965.

• Arnoff, Myron J. “Political Culture,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., (Oxford: Elsevier, 2002), 11640.

• Barzilai, Gad. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.

• Diamond, Larry (ed.) Political Culture and Democracy in Developing Countries.

• Kertzer, David I. Politics and Symbols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

• Kertzer, David I. Ritual, Politics, and Power. New Have, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

• Kubik, Jan. The Power of Symbols Against The Symbols of Power. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

• Laitin, David D. Hegemony and Culture. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

• Wilson, Richard W. "The Many Voices of Political Culture: Assessing Different Approaches," in World Politics 52 (January 2000), 246-73

• Political culture of the United States of America
• Political culture of Canada
• Political culture of Germany
• Political culture of the United Kingdom