Conceptions
In the early 1960s, two Americans, Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, outlined three pure types of political culture in Great Britain that can combine to create civic culture. These three key features expressed by both men were composed to establish a link between the public and the government. The first of these features is Deference, which looks at the respect, acknowledgment or inferiority of authority and superiors in society.
The second key feature is Consensus, which represents the key link between government and public agreement and appeasement. The appeasement may not always be shared with the whole nation but as a whole people agree to sustain it, meaning it is a common agreement. There are various Examples of Consensus in British Political culture; how we are governed as a whole, agreement on the welfare state, an agreement to whom the powers governed by head of state go to.
The third features of British Political Culture is Homogeneity. Church attendance as a whole is decreasing. Nations within the British Isles such as Scotland and Wales desire independence to become its own state.
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