Gabriel Almond - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet I: Bonus 5

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> | Packet I - McGill B, UCLA A, Michigan B, Georgia Tech C, Southampton B

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
63	12.22	91%	32%	0%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	0	10	E
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10	E
Binghamton B	Rochester	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	E
Bristol	LSE	10	0	10	E
Brown	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	E
Bruin	WashU B	10	10	20	EM
Carleton College	Washington B	10	10	20	EM
Catholic	John Jay	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	10	20	EM
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0
Chicago B	Notre Dame A	10	10	20	EM
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	E
Columbia A	Maryland A	10	10	20	EM
Cornell A	Penn State	10	0	10	E
Cornell C	Binghamton A	10	0	10	E
Dartmouth B	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	E
Durham	City St. George's	10	0	10	E
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	20	EM
Georgetown	Columbia C	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	10	0	10	E
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	E
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	0	10	E
Illinois B	Chicago C	10	0	10	E
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	E
Imperial C	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	E
Iowa State	Claremont	10	0	10	E
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	10	0	10	E
Kentucky	Louisville B	10	0	10	E
Liberty A	South Carolina A	10	0	10	E
Liberty B	James Madison B	10	0	10	E
Liberty C	James Madison A	0	0	0
MIT	Brandeis A	10	10	20	EM
Maryland B	Vassar	10	0	10	E
McGill A	UBC B	10	0	10	E
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20	EM
NC State A	North Carolina C	10	10	20	EM
NC State B	North Carolina B	10	0	10	E
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	20	EM
NYU C	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	E
Northwestern B	Illinois C	10	0	10	E
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	0
Northwestern D	Indiana B	10	0	10	E
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	20	EM
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	0	10	E
Purdue B	Chicago D	10	0	10	E
RIT	Cornell B	10	0	10	E
Rutgers B	Rutgers A	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	20	EM
Swarthmore	Maryland C	10	0	10	E
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	0	0
Tennessee B	Alabama A	10	0	10	E
Texas A	Murray State A	10	0	10	E
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	E
UCL	Oxford B	10	10	20	EM
VCU	South Carolina B	10	10	20	EM
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	20	EM
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	20	EM
Washington A	Missouri A	10	0	10	E
William and Mary	Duke	10	10	20	EM
Yale	Harvard B	10	10	20	EM

Summary

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