Culture and politics : a reader / edited by Lane Crothers and Charles Lockhart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crothers, Lane.

Lockhart, Charles, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture.

Culture.

Physical Description:

xx, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. "Culture and Politics: A Reader" explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the core themes of political culture research: Concepts and Applications, Culture and Globalization, Popular Culture, Civil Society and Social Capital, Social Movements and Collective Identity, Culture and Political Change, and Culture and Rationality. Each section includes general and article introductions as well as a " suggested reading" list. Taken together, these features make "Culture and Politics: A Reader" a handy resource for students and teachers at both the graduate and the under-graduate level.

Contents:

Part I Concepts and Applications

1. The Study of Political Culture / Gabriel A. Almond 5

2. A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain? / David J. Elkins, Richard E. B. Simeon 21

3. Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis / Marc Howard Ross 39

4. The Startling Ability of Culture to Bring Critical Inquiry to a Halt / Patricia Nelson Limerick 71

Part II Culture and Globalization

5. Socialism and the Ideological Dimensions of Globalization / Manfred B. Steger 79

6. The Clash of Civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington 99

7. Singapore and the "Asian Values" Debate / Donald K. Emmerson 119

Part III Popular Culture

8. Deep Structures: Polpop Culture on Primetime Television / Allen McBride, Robert K. Toburen 133

9. The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media / Gaye Tuchman 150

10. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight / Clifford Geertz 175

Part IV Civil Society and Social Capital

11. The Politics of Virtue Today: A Critique and a Proposal / Shelley Burtt 207

12. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital / Robert D. Putnam 223

13. Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work / Sidney Tarrow 235

Part V Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Political Culture

14. Culture and Social Movements / Doug McAdam 253

15. Cultural Power and Social Movements / Ann Swidler 269

16. Cultural Conflict in America / James Davison Hunter 284

Part VI Culture and Political Change

17. A Culturalist Theory of Political Change / Harry Eckstein 307

18. Does Latin America Exist? (And Is There a Confucian Culture?) / Ronald Inglehart, Marita Carballo 325

19. Patterns of Response / Samuel P. Huntington 348

Part VII Culture and Rationality

20. Social Norms and Economic Theory / Jon Elster 363

21. Socioeconomics and the New "Battle of Methods": Toward a Paradigm Shift? / Richard Swedberg 381

22. Rationality and Interpretation: Parliamentary Elections in Early Stuart England / John Ferejohn 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-434) and index.

ISBN:

0312225431

0312233000

OCLC:

43729128