Gabriel Almond - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This thinker is the first namesake of a “consensus” noting that public opinion is volatile, incoherent, and irrelevant to policy-making. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this political scientist who co-names that consensus with Walter Lippmann. This thinker popularized the concept of a political culture in his book The Civic Culture with Sidney Verba.

ANSWER: Gabriel Almond [or Gabriel Abraham Almond]

[10e] Almond wrote an early book on a field of political science named for this term that applies Mill’s methods. An “advantage” named for this term was put forward by David Ricardo in contrast to an “absolute advantage.”

ANSWER: comparative [or comparative politics; or comparative advantage]

[10m] Almond’s conception of political culture was extended in this book by a different author. This book, written in response to The End of History, outlined its author’s conception of “fault lines” in the context of core states.

ANSWER: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (by Samuel Huntington)

<NS, Social Science>

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	89%	11%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	89%	33%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	20
McGill A	UBC B	10	0	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	10	20
William and Mary	Duke	10	10	20
Liberty C	James Madison A	0	0	0
Liberty A	South Carolina A	10	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison B	10	0	10
NC State B	North Carolina B	10	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina C	10	10	20
VCU	South Carolina B	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	10	10	20
Purdue B	Chicago D	10	0	10
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	10	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Illinois C	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	0
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	10	0	10
Brown	Bowdoin B	10	0	10
MIT	Brandeis A	10	10	20
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10
Yale	Harvard B	10	10	20
Chicago B	Notre Dame A	10	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago C	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Indiana B	10	0	10
Carleton College	Washington B	10	10	20
Iowa State	Claremont	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20
Washington A	Missouri A	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Alabama A	10	0	10
Bruin	WashU B	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville B	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	0	0
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	20
Bristol	LSE	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	20
Durham	City St. George's	10	0	10
Imperial C	Edinburgh B	10	0	10
UCL	Oxford B	10	10	20
Catholic	John Jay	0	0	0
Columbia A	Maryland A	10	10	20
Georgetown	Columbia C	10	10	20
Maryland B	Vassar	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	10	0	10
NYU C	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Rutgers A	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Maryland C	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Rochester	0	0	0
Cornell A	Penn State	10	0	10
RIT	Cornell B	10	0	10