From Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1800s classic “Democracy in America” to Almond and Verba’s groundbreaking 1960s study “The Civic Culture,” astute witnesses argue that Americans ...

To research The Civic Culture, Verba, Almond and their team performed a cross-national survey, a method which would become fundamental to political science. For his second major work, Voice and ...

Sidney Verba, whose pioneering ... Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations,” which he wrote with Gabriel A. Almond in 1963 when he was Dr. Almond’s research assistant at Princeton ...

Professor Sidney Verba ’53 — an expert in comparative politics, a leader in library organization, and a creator of policy compromises — died on Monday in his Cambridge home at the age of 86.

Sidney Verba, whose pioneering research comparing political behavior among the world’s democracies became a classic book among students of politics, died March 4 at his home in Cambridge ...