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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
Preferences
chapter |16 pages
The Formation and Transformation of Preferences
Cultural Theory and postmaterialism compared
part |44 pages
Organisations
chapter |13 pages
Broad Churches, Big Theory and One Small Example
Cultural Theory and intra-party politics
chapter |13 pages
A Trojan Horse in the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture
A cultural theory explanation of intra- and inter-departmental conflicts (and of why they sometimes disappear)
part |51 pages
Political Cultures
chapter |16 pages
Pollution Through Traffic and Transport
The praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment
part |53 pages
Democracies