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Vladimir Vujčić: Political culture of democracy

The evolution of political science after World War II went in the direction of the pluralization of theoretical approaches and methods used in research and analyses of the political phenomenon in its various manifestations. The contemporary political science in its methodological dimension is consequently characterized by a plurality of methods, but within this diversity a few main streams can be distinguished. Thus, we can talk about the three dominant approaches to the study of politics. One group of political scientists analyses the phenomenon of the political primarily via the research of political institutions, the second has been trying to apply economic models to the study of political institutions, primarily the rational choice approach whose starting point in the analysis of political processes is the assumption that people are rational and interest-determined beings, while the third group claims that besides the objective aspect, the phenomenon of the political has its subjective dimension which in their works they identify with the concept of culture. In other words, the contemporary political science research focuses on the political sphere and the functioning of political systems by using one of the three following concepts: institutions, interest and culture.

political science ; methodology ; democracy

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