National Political Culture. A Study on Political Orientations in Post‑Communist Romania

Abstract

The article is part of the conceptual debates on national or regional/ local dimension of the political culture arguing for the classical approach which identifies political values, attitudes and behaviors relevant to the national type of community. The case study, which actually supports the idea of the existence of a national political culture, targets the post-communist Romanian society and is based on the results of a quantitative sociological research. The aim of the paper is to show that the Romanian social space is quite homogeneous on those value, attitudinal and behavioral orientations that define political culture.

Keywords

• political culture
• political values
• civic engagement
• cultural homogeneity
• post-communist Romania