Kearifal lokal pembentuk budaya kewarganegaraan menuju Integrasi Nasional
Kearifal lokal pembentuk budaya kewarganegaraan menuju Integrasi Nasional Oleh: I Nengah Agus Tripayana, M.Pd Istilah budaya kewarganegaraan atau civic culure pertama kali diciptakan oleh Gabriel Almond dan Sidney Verba pada tahun 1963 dalam bukunya The Civic Culture untuk menjelaskan perilaku hubungan politik dan sosial yang dianggap penting bagi keberhasilan demokrasi modern. Lebih lanjut Bridges (1994, hlm. 20) menerangkan bahwa: “What is true of the sphere of culture in general has special application to the specific form of culture I have called civic culture. A very special kind of persuasive process is required to gain and retain adherence to the norms proper to the standpoint of liberal democratic citizenship. As I have noted, a civic culture is a type of countervailing culture. Liberal democracy as a form of political association is defined by the rather unusual assumption that the citizens of any particular liberal democracy will disagree fundamentally in their con