Resumen
El artículo presenta y discute las tesis centrales de la teoría de la cultura política, centrándose en sus proposiciones sobre las complejas relaciones que existen entre las orientaciones subjetivas individuales y las instituciones políticas. Inicialmente, se exponen los argumentos centrales del primer intento de formular sistemáticamente el programa de investigación culturalista, elaborado por Almond y Verba en La cultura cívica. En la secuencia se analizan las principales críticas dirigidas a esta primera generación de estudios, sobre todo, la que cuestiona la relación causal entre cultura y estructuras políticas. Finalmente, a través de la presentación de tesis propuestas por estudios recientes, se presentan nuevos argumentos sobre este controvertido tema con el fin de afirmar la complementariedad entre factores subjetivos e institucionales en la producción de explicaciones consistentes para los complejos procesos de democratización contemporánea.
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