Culture and Politics
Subtitle: A Reader
Contributors: Lane Crothers (Editor); Charles Lockhart (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780312233006
Subjects: Social Science; Textbooks; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; International - General; Business & Economics / International; Business & Economics : International - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Sociology - General; Culture; Political culture
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.