POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY

Text topic: Culture and Democracy - 50 Years of the Review Kultura

Text author: Иван Младеновић

In this paper we shall investigate the ideas and ideals of the political culture in a democratic society, which contribute to the viability of democracy and its further development. The main objective of the paper is to analyse the normative dimension of the democratic political culture. Starting from the principles of freedom and equality we ask how these principles provide grounds for some basic ideas and ideals of the political culture of a democratic society. Although our investigation is normative in nature, we argue that normative political theory should pay attention to empirically oriented research on political culture.