Culture and Politics
Contributors: Lane Crothers (Editor); Charles Lockhart (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 21, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780333946633
Subjects: Cultural studies; Political science & theory
First sentence: Gabriel Almond, the "dean" of contemporary political culture theory, begins by showing that culture-people's cognitions, values, and affective commitments-has been central to important explanations of social life for over two thousand years.