parochial political culture

In political science, parochial political culture describes a situation where citizens have minimal awareness of the central government's existence. They are not actively involved in the political process and have little knowledge of or interest in it. This contrasts with subject political culture, where citizens see themselves as subjects of the government, and participant political culture, where citizens believe they can both contribute to and are affected by the political system. A stable democracy, according to Almond and Verba's foundational work The Civic Culture, thrives on a mix of these attitudes, known as civic culture, where participant attitudes are balanced by subject and parochial ones.12