Culture Matters
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Aaron Wildavsky
Contributors: Richard J. Ellis (Editor); Michael Thompson (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813331188
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Politics / Current Events; Culture; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Political Science-General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Political culture
First sentence: The ideas of political culture and of rational choice-or, to use a more appropriate term, utility, or utility rationality-underlie the currently dominant approaches to constructing theory in political science.