Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics: An Uneasy AllianceIn this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. |
Contents
the culture debatePolitical culture | 1 |
the Long debate over Political culture | 13 |
a Precursor to Political culture | 29 |
national character Studies | 45 |
the civic culture and the revolution in Survey research | 65 |
criticisms of the Political culture approach | 85 |
the renaissance of Political culture | 105 |
nonwestern theories of development | 125 |
identity Politics | 147 |
conclusion | 165 |
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