As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging
investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the
United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting
recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions
were neither endlessly varied, nor haphazardly organized. They
tended to exhibit a limited range of variation, and were organized
in discoverable, predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis, the fourth
collection of his essays posthumously published by Transaction,
Wildavsky argues that American politics, public law, and public
administration are the contested terrain of rival, inescapable
political cultures.Analysts of American politics distinguish
liberals from conservatives and Democrats from Republicans, but do
not explain how these categories of political allegiance develop,
maintain themselves, or change. Wildavsky offers a
cultural-functional explanation for ideological and partisan
coherence and realignment. Wildavsky also felt that these dualisms
did not adequately capture the ideological and partisan variation
he observed on the political landscape. Like others, he detected
another recurring strain of political allegiance: that of classical
liberalism or libertarianism. People of this political stripe
valued freedom more than equality (the primary political value of
contemporary liberals), and also more than order, the primary
political value of conservatives.The value of Wildavsky's
reconceptualization of the ideological and social foundations of
political conflict, compromise, and coalition is assessed here by
Wildavsky's former colleagues and students at the University of
California, Berkeley: Dennis Coyle, Richard Ellis, Robert Kagan,
Austin Ranney, and Brendon Swedlow.
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