The Mundane Experience of Political Culture

This article compares "mundane political culture" and "Inglehartian political culture." Differences between the two concepts are described along nine theoretical dimensions. It is then argued that mundane political culture needs to be investigated in depth. The article uses a series of local conversations about "community" in St. Paul, Minnesota to investigate mundane political culture. Based on this analysis, it is suggested that mundane political culture provides a quite different picture of political culture and political stability in the United States than does Inglehartian political culture.