Cultural Theory as Political Science (Routledge Ecpr Studies in European Political Science, 11)

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 5 COPYRIGNT......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 TABLES......Page 9 FIGURES......Page 10 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11 PREFACE......Page 15 1 CULTURAL THEORY AS POLITICAL SCIENCE......Page 16 From Newtonian to Blakean social science......Page 23 The Complete Typology......Page 25 The individual is a lump of misplaced concrete......Page 26 User-friendly Cultural Theory......Page 27 Preferences......Page 29 Organisations......Page 30 Political cultures......Page 31 Democracies......Page 33 Notes......Page 35 Part 1 PREFERENCES......Page 38 2 WHOSE BEHAVIOUR IS AFFECTED BY INTERNATIONAL ANARCHY?......Page 40 Four international rationalities......Page 42 The essence of international issues......Page 43 Governance of the international system and regimes......Page 45 Perceived feasibility of international cooperation......Page 46 Rules and procedures......Page 47 Proposition 2......Page 50 An illustration: the environmental protection of the river Rhine......Page 51 Notes......Page 53 Postmaterialism and Cultural Theory compared as theories First......Page 56 Theoretical traditions......Page 57 Framing assumptions......Page 60 Cultural change......Page 61 Culture and environmental concern......Page 63 The hypotheses......Page 64 Measuring cultures......Page 65 Predicting environmental concern......Page 66 Notes......Page 69 Introduction......Page 72 Three models of the individual and their implications for bias rejection......Page 73 Support and rejection of cultural biases......Page 74 Identifying combinations of cultural biases......Page 75 Biases and party preferences......Page 78 Accounting for party preference......Page 79 The role of rejection......Page 82 Consequences for Cultural Theory......Page 83 Complementing approaches to political behaviour......Page 84 Notes......Page 85 Part 2 ORGANISATIONS......Page 88 Cultural Theory and political parties: the possibilities......Page 90 The egalitarians......Page 92 The hierarchs......Page 95 The fatalists......Page 98 Conclusion......Page 100 Notes......Page 101 Fifteen years of conflict and its disappearance......Page 102 Traditional explanations and their shortcomings......Page 106 The learning problem......Page 108 Proposition 1......Page 109 Proposition 2......Page 110 Proposition 4......Page 111 Proposition 6......Page 112 Notes......Page 113 Elster’s Criteria......Page 114 Essential features of cultural theory......Page 118 An analysis of some examples......Page 121 Summary......Page 126 Notes......Page 127 Part 3 POLITICAL CULTURES......Page 130 8 CULTURAL BIASES AND NEW MEDIA FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: CUI BONO?......Page 132 Communication and information bias......Page 133 Democratising teledemocracy......Page 135 Orwell or Athens? The wrong question......Page 138 Patterns of inspiration and support: answering the right question......Page 139 Applications inspired by and supportive of hierarchy......Page 141 Applications inspired by and supportive of egalitarianism......Page 143 Applications inspired by and supportive of individualism......Page 144 Notes......Page 146 Confusion amid the clarification......Page 148 From ways of life to political culture: The Cultural Theory two-step......Page 149 Varieties of pluralism......Page 150 Identifying typical political cultures......Page 151 Political cultures dominated by just one way of life......Page 152 Political cultures dominated by alliances......Page 153 Political cultures characterised by high levels of fatalism......Page 154 National political cultures in the European Union......Page 156 Notes......Page 160 Introduction......Page 164 Theoretical framework......Page 165 Teknologi Naevnet and ‘The Future of Private (Car) Transport’......Page 166 The TAB Project ‘Options for reducing the road system burden and for substitution of road traffic by more environmentally.........Page 170 STOA and ‘The Technological City. Ideas and Experiments in Urban Organisation of Mobility, Transport, Production and.........Page 171 Comparing the contents of the TAs......Page 173 Conclusion......Page 176 Notes......Page 178 Part 4 DEMOCRACIES......Page 180 11 IMAGES OF DEMOCRACY IN DANISH SOCIAL HOUSING......Page 182 Ways of life as ways of learning about decisions......Page 183 Images of democracy......Page 184 The governance of Danish social housing......Page 185 Meeting the challenge......Page 188 Notes......Page 193 12 THE CULTURAL CONDITIONS FOR DEMOCRACY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES......Page 196 A Cultural Theory recipe for stable democracy......Page 197 Explaining stability and instability......Page 199 Democracy as institutionalised pluri-culturality......Page 202 Authoritarianism as institutionalised cultural exclusion......Page 203 Transition strategies......Page 205 The 1990 elections: a missed chance?......Page 206 The heaviness of the caudillos......Page 207 The heaviness of the external caudillos......Page 208 Strategies for mass mobilisation that take account of both weight and numbers......Page 210 Notes......Page 213 Circles of improvement......Page 216 The masking of the political by the technical......Page 218 Putting the plurality into pluralist theory......Page 219 Refreshing the parts old-style pluralism cannot reach......Page 222 Filling the void......Page 226 Civic responsiveness and the democratisation of the public sphere......Page 229 Notes......Page 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 232 INDEX......Page 250 1: Cultural Theory As Political Science / Michael Thompson, Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle -- Pt. 1: Preferences -- 2: Whose Behaviour Is Affected By International Anarchy? / Marco Verweij -- 3: The Formation And Transformation Of Preferences: Cultural Theory And Postmaterialism Compared / Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle -- 4: Rejection Of Cultural Biases And Effects On Party Preference / Eero Olli. Pt. 2: Organisations -- 5: Broad Churches, Big Theory And One Small Example: Cultural Theory And Intra-party Politics / Tim Bale -- 6: A Trojan Horse In The Dutch Ministry Of Agriculture: A Cultural Theory Explanation Of Intra- And Inter-departmental Conflicts (and Of Why They Sometimes Disappear) / Jouke De Vries -- 7: Sociocultural Functionalism / Harald Grimen. Pt. 3: Political Cultures -- 8: Cultural Biases And New Media For The Public Domain: Cui Bono? / Frank Hendriks, Stavros Zouridis -- 9: National Political Cultures In The European Union / Virginie Mamadouh -- 10: Pollution Through Traffic And Transport: The Praxis Of Cultural Pluralism In Parliamentarian Technology Assessment / Robert Hoppe, John Grin. Pt. 4: Democracies -- 11: Images Of Democracy In Danish Social Housing / Lotte Jensen -- 12: The Cultural Conditions For Democracy And Their Implications For Transitional Societies / Nadia Molenaers, Michael Thompson -- 13: Consulting The Frogs: The Normative Implications Of Cultural Theory / Stephen Ney, Michael Thompson -- Bibliography -- Index. Edited By Michael Thompson, Gunnar Grendstad, And Per Selle. Almost All Of The Chapters In This Volume Have Been Developed From Papers Presented At The Workshop On Cultural Theory Which Took Place In Berne, Switzerland, In February/march 1997--pref. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 224-241) And Index. Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; Cultural theory as political science; Preferences; Whose behaviour is affected by international anarchy?; The formation and transformation of preferences: Cultural Theory and postmaterialism compared; Rejection of cultural biases and effects on party preference; Organisations; Broad churches, big theory and one small example: Cultural Theory and intra-party politics.A Trojan horse in the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture: A cultural theory explanation of intra-and inter-departmental conflicts (and of why they sometimes disappear)Sociocultural functionalism; Political cultures; Cultural biases and new media for the public domain: cui bono?; National political cultures in the European Union; Pollution through traffic and transport: the praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment; Democracies; Images of democracy in Danish social housing; The cultural conditions for dem.Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web. 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