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The Theory of Political Culture (Hardcover)
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The Theory of Political Culture (Hardcover)
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Although the idea that politics is influenced by its cultural
setting is so plausible as to be almost irresistible, political
culture has remained a contested and controversial concept. Just
what the cultural setting consists of and how its influence on
politics is transmitted remain unclear and disputed. This book
argues that the problem is insufficient attention to basic
theoretical questions. Positivist political culture research based
on attitude surveys, and the interpretivist alternative which
explores meaningful context, despite their mutual antipathy share a
neglect of these questions, while materialist and discursivist
critiques of, and alternatives to, political culture research end
up posing the very same questions. Resisting the specialization and
sectarianism of much of political and social science, the book
tackles head on the questions of what political culture is and how
it works. It begins by arguing that we must explore the nature and
dynamics of political culture. To do this it is necessary to reach
beyond political science and reopen the interdisciplinary exchange
in which political culture research was founded. The book reaches
into the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michael Polanyi for
foundational arguments about the nature of culture, and into
social, cognitive, and cultural psychology for findings about human
motivation which are radical in their implications for political
culture research and its methods. It develops a dualistic theory of
political culture, and uses the two dimensions of practice and
discourse in a new analysis of the otherwise mysterious causal
dynamics of political culture. It provides an explanation of what
has hitherto only been asserted: the role played by political
culture in both political stability and political change. Thus it
restores a rigorously argued concept of political culture to a
central place in political science, and suggests an agenda for its
future development.
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