Introduction to Comparative Political Culture ― The Theoretical Reflection on the Plurality of Democracy

This book starts with four aspects - subject’s cognition, way of thinking, political value and ideology, conducts comparative studies on political culture. Amid using the concept of political culture in western academic circles, it makes comprehensive supplement for this concept, and put forward an updated concept of political culture which is more localized. This new concept, on the grounds of the comparison with political system, takes political culture as the subjective side of political system and incorporates ideology into political culture, thus undoubtedly enriching our knowledge of political culture. On the basis of clarifying the concept of political culture and establishing the comparative dimension of it, this book widely refers to the outlooks of individuals, nations, society and power of political cognition; the modes of objectives, directions and methods of political ideas; democratic awareness, legal concept and system selection of political value; as well as liberalism and republicanism, etc. All these bring substantial benefits to promoting and deepening the comparative studies on political culture. This book can not only be used for the teaching undergraduate and graduates who major in Politics, but also used as the reference book for politics academic research.

Tong Dezhi, Ph.D on political science, professor, Ph.D advisor, Changjiang scholar of Ministry of Education, dean of College of Politics and Public Administration at Tianjin Normal University, director of graduate program on Political Science and director of undergraduate program of Politics and Public Administration. He was post doctor and visiting scholar at Beijing University and Yale University, as well as a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Political Science Majors of the Ministry of Education, associate General Secretory of the Chinese Institute of Politics, vice president of Tianjin Political Society and vice president of Tianjin Administrative Association. He serves as editor in the CASS Journal of Political Science and Journal of History of Political Thought. He has presided 3programs sponsored by the National Social Science Fund, including very important program, key point program and youth program, a number of major, key, youth projects. He has published more than 150 papers, 4 monographs, editor-in-chief and participated in the preparation of more than 20 books, more than 10 translations. He has also been awarded by Ministry of Education Social Science outstanding achievements for 2 times, Tianjin Social Science outstanding achievements 6 times.