Culture and Politics A Reader
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
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Culture and Politics A Reader
Edited by Lane Crothers and Charles Lockhart
St. Martin's Press New York
CULTURE AND POLITICS: A READER Copyright © 2000 Lane Crothers and Charles Lockhart. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. ISBN 978-0-312-23300-6 ISBN 978-1-349-62965-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62965-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data to be found at the Library of Congress.
First edition: July 2000
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To Aaron Wildavsky, Scholar and Teacher
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Permissions Editors' Introduction
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PART I: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS Introduction 1. The Study of Political Culture, Gabriel A. Almond 2. A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain? David J. Elkins and Richard E. B. Simeon 3. Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis, Marc Howard Ross 4. The Startling Ability of Culture to Bring Critical Inquiry to a Halt, Patricia Nelson Limerick
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PART II: CULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION Introduction 5. Socialism and the Ideological Dimensions of Globalization, Manfred B. Steger 6. The Clash of Civilizations? Samuel P. Huntington 7. Singapore and the "Asian Values" Debate, Donald K. Emmerson
75 79 99 119
PART III: POPULAR CULTURE Introduction 8. Deep Structures: Polpop Culture on Prime time Television, Allen McBride and Robert K. Toburen
129 133
9. The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media, Gaye Tuchman 10. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, Clifford Geertz
150 175
PART IV: CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL Introduction 11. The Politics of Virtue Today: A Critique and a Proposal, Shelley Burtt 12. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital, Robert D. Putnam 13. Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection On Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work, Sidney Tarrow
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PART V: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, AND POLITICAL CULTURE Introduction 14. Culture and Social Movements, Doug McAdam 15. Cultural Power and Social Movements,Ann Swidler 16. Cultural Conflict in America, James Davison Hunter
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PART VI: CULTURE AND POLITICAL CHANGE Introduction 17. A Culturalist Theory of Political Change, Harry Eckstein 18. Does Latin America Exist? (And Is There a Confucian Culture?), Ronald Inglehart and Marita Carballo 19. Patterns of Response, Samuel P. Huntington
303 307 325 348
PART VII: CULTURE AND RATIONALITY Introduction 20. Social Norms and Economic Theory,Jon Elster 21. Socioeconomics and the New "Battle of Methods": Toward a Paradigm Shift? Richard Swedberg 22. Rationality and Interpretation: Parliamentary Elections in Early Stuart England,John Ferejohn
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Notes Index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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