Protecting the elderly
Subtitle: how culture shapes social policy
By: Charles Lockhart.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies; Politics and culture
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.