ISBN:
9780415862714
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge / ECPR Studies in European Political Science
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Theory as Political Science
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; 1 Cultural theory as political science; PART 1Preferences; 2 Whose behaviour is affected by international anarchy?; 3 The formation and transformation of preferences: Cultural Theory and postmaterialism compared; 4 Rejection of cultural biases and effects on party preference; PART 2 Organisations; 5 Broad churches, big theory and one small example: CulturalTheory and intra-party politics
Description / Table of Contents:
6 A Trojan horse in the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture:A cultural theory explanation of intra- and inter-departmentalconflicts (and of why they sometimes disappear)7 Sociocultural functionalism; PART 3 Political cultures; 8 Cultural biases and new media for the public domain: cui bono?; 9 National political cultures in the European Union; 10 Pollution through traffic and transport: the praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment; PART 4Democracies; 11 Images of democracy in Danish social housing
Description / Table of Contents:
12 The cultural conditions for democracy and their implications for transitional societies13 Consulting the frogs: the normative implications ofCultural Theory; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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