Culture and Politics A Reader

by Crothers, Lane; Lockhart, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780312233006
• ISBN10: 0312233000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Lane Crothers is Associate Professor of Political Science at Illinois State University. Charles Lockhart is Professor of Political Science at TCU.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Permissions	xi
Editors' Introduction	xv
PART I: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
Introduction	1	(4)
The Study of Political Culture	5	(16)
Gabriel A. Almond
A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain?	21	(18)
David J. Elkins
Richard E. B. Simeon
Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis	39	(32)
Marc Howard Ross
The Startling Ability of Culture to Bring Critical Inquiry to a Halt	71	(8)
Patricia Nelson Limerick
PART II: CULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION
Introduction	75	(4)
Socialism and the Ideological Dimensions of Globalization	79	(20)
Manfred B. Steger
The Clash of Civilizations?	99	(20)
Samuel P. Huntington
Singapore and the ``Asian Values'' Debate	119	(14)
Donald K. Emmerson
PART III: POPULAR CULTURE
Introduction	129	(4)
Deep Structures: Polpop Culture on Primetime Television	133	(17)
Allen McBride
Robert K. Toburen
The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media	150	(25)
Gaye Tuchman
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight	175	(32)
Clifford Geertz
PART IV: CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
Introduction	203	(4)
The Politics of Virtue Today: A Critique and a Proposal	207	(16)
Shelley Burtt
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital	223	(12)
Robert D. Putnam
Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection On Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work	235	(18)
Sidney Tarrow
PART V: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, AND POLITICAL CULTURE
Introduction	249	(4)
Culture and Social Movements	253	(16)
Dough McAdam
Cultural Power and Social Movements	269	(15)
Ann Swidler
Cultural Conflict in America	284	(23)
James Davison Hunter
PART VI: CULTURE AND POLITICAL CHANGE
Introduction	303	(4)
A Culturalist Theory of Political Change	307	(18)
Harry Eckstein
Does Latin America Exist? (And Is There a Confucian Culture?)	325	(23)
Ronald Inglehart
Marita Carballo
Patterns of Response	348	(15)
Samuel P. Huntington
PART VII: CULTURE AND RATIONALITY
Introduction	359	(4)
Social Norms and Economic Theory	363	(18)
Jon Elster
Socioeconomics and the New ``Battle of Methods'': Toward a Paradigm Shift?	381	(12)
Richard Swedberg
Rationality and Interpretation: Parliamentary Elections in Early Stuart England	393	(20)
John Ferejohn
Notes	413	(22)
Index	435