On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from almond flour bread article title. American political scientist best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, political development, and political culture.

Almond broadened the field of political science in the 1950s by integrating approaches from other social science disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and anthropology, into his work. Almond was a prolific author, publishing 18 books and numerous journal articles, and co-writing many others. Almond also contributed to theoretical work on political development. Bingham Powell proposed a variety of cultural and functional ways to measure the development of societies. In a 1991 paper titled, “Capitalism and Democracy”, in two paragraphs Almond stated what the basic agendas for the study of governance ought to be in US universities: that capitalism and democracy co-exist as the prevailing systems of governance the world over and they invariably interact with each other and transform each other through time. Public opinion is volatile, shifting erratically in response to the most recent developments or manipulation. Mass beliefs early in the twentieth century were “too pacifist in peace and too bellicose in war, too neutralist or appeasing in negotiations or too intransigent.

Public opinion is incoherent, lacking an organized or a consistent structure to such an extent that the views of US citizens could best be described as “nonattitudes”. Public opinion is irrelevant to the policy-making process. Political leaders ignore public opinion because most Americans can neither “understand nor influence the very events upon which their lives and happiness are known to depend. Lippmann consensus was highly influential in the 1950s and 1960s but weakened following the Vietnam War.