The term was first used in Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's book, The Civic Culture.
[2] Almond and Verba characterised Britain as having a civic political culture.
Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley discuss the extent to which Britain can still be regarded as having a civic political culture.
[4] The term civic culture is used to identify the political culture characteristics that explain the stability of a democratic society's political structure.
[5] Almond and Verba state that the following are characteristics of a civic culture:[6] The proper combination of the various types of political culture will provide a culture that has a positive implication for the growth of democracy.