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    The Prerequisite Cultural Changes for the Implementation of Democracy in Algeria
    (Université 20 Août 1955 - Skikda, 2021) Imen, Loucif; M.S. ,Nedjai
    The present research aims at investigating the prerequisite cultural changes for the implementation of democracy in Algeria. Thus, we set these research problems on whether Algerians fully understand democracy and whether our culture permits a robust implementation of democracy and if no, what can we change in our culture to achieve democracy. Data for the study were collected from 271 participants from different wilayas who answered an email survey. The methodological aspect of it was mainly based on both of Almond and Verba and Inglehart studies of political culture and democracy. Our empirical study was carried out during 2017.The results obtained revealed that most participants had vague conceptualisation of democracy, they did not trust the political institutions and they preferred economic development over a democratic system of government exhibiting what Almond and Verba coined as a subject culture. Conclusions drawn from this work led to understand that in order to implement democracy in Algeria, citizens must acquire a participant culture