Analysis of political culture in the Czech Republic

The work is based on the definition of political culture and the evolution of political culture in the Czech society from the time of the Austrian Empire to the present. This analysis uses the concept of Gabriel Almond and Sydney Verba given in the book The Civic Culture. Author seeks to characterize its various features and tendences and the reasons for their emergence. The first part deals with the very concept of political culture and the difficulty of its precise definition and with the existence of various definitions and concepts. In the next part the author analyzes the gradual emergence of the individual features and their change in different periods of Czech history. After that are listed the various features of the current political culture of the Czech society. Author tries to answer the question whether the Czech political culture in its development hold certain trends and patterns of behavior and whether it is possible to expect changes in the development of political culture in the Czech Republic in the near future