The New Political Culture

by Clark, Terry Nichols; Hoffmann-Martinot, Vincent; Gromala, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780813328140
• ISBN10: 0813328144
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

The New Political culture, which began to take shape in the 1970s, continues to challenge many assumptions of traditional politics, especially on issues of environmentalism, growth management, gay rights, and abortion. Concerned mostly with home, consumption, and lifestyle, the New Politics emerges fully in cities with more highly educated citizens, higher incomes, and more high-tech service occupations. Leadership does not come from parties, unions, or ethnic groups but rather shifts from issue to issue: leaders on abortion are distinct from leaders on environmental issues. Based on data gathered by the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, the most extensive study of local government in the world to date, this book provides an explicit analysis of the social structural characteristics that encourage or discourage the New Political culture.

Author Biography

Terry Nichols Clark is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and coordinator of the FAUI Project. Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot is a political scientist at the French Urban Center, Cervel, and the CNRS in Bordeaux.

Table of Contents

Contributors to the Volume	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
Part 1 The New Political Culture: An Analytical Framework to Interpret What Has Changed, Where, and Why	1	(74)
1 Overview of the Book	1	(8)
Terry Nichols Clark
2 The New Political Culture: Changing Dynamics of Support for the Welfare State and Other Policies in Postindustrial Societies	9	(66)
Terry Nichols Clark
Ronald Inglehart
Part 2 Where Has the New Political Culture Emerged and Why?	75	(120)
3 Is There Really a New Political Culture: Evidence from Major Historical Developments of Recent Decades	75	(18)
Terry Nichols Clark
4 Assessing the New Political Culture by Comparing Cities Around the world	93	(102)
Terry Nichols Clark
Jerzy Barkowski
Zhiyue Bo
Lincoln Quillian
Doug Huffer
Ziad Munson
Eric Fong
Yun-Ji-Qian
Mark Gromala
Michael Rempel
Dennis Merritt
Part 3 How Hierarchies and Parties Specifically Redirect Politics and Policy Priorities	195	(82)
5 Urban Political Parties: Role and Transformation	195	(24)
Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot
6 Transformations in Policy Preferences of Local Officials	219	(16)
Oscar Gabriel
Katja Ahlstich
Frank Brettschneider
Volker Kunz
7 Toward a One-Dimensional Ideological Culture? Evidence from Swiss Local Parties	235	(26)
Hans Geser
8 Citizen Preferences for Local Growth Controls: Trends in U.S. Suburban Support for a New Political Culture Movement	261	(16)
Mark Baldassare
Bibliography	277