政治文化作为一整套政治态度、信念和情感的集合体,常常被视为维系社会稳定的软因素,社会科学家们一般认为它难以解释变化。维尔达夫斯基在批判“两分法”的基础上,归纳出五种政治文化模式,并进一步引入“惊奇”这一概念,为政治文化的变化提供了多种可能的路径,更重要的是,他将政治文化的变化与社会体制的稳定有机地结合起来。 Political culture, as a set of political attitudes, beliefs and emotions, is often seen as a soft factor in maintaining social stability, which social scientists generally consider difficult to explain. On the basis of criticizing “dichotomy”, Verdavsky induces five kinds of political and cultural models and further introduces the concept of “surprise”, which provides many possible paths for the change of political culture More importantly, he organically integrated the changes in political culture with the stability of the social system.