Culture and Comparative Political
Keywords:
Culture, Comparative Politics, political identities, interpretations, narrativesAbstract
This chapter argues that culture is important to the study of politics because it provides a framework for organizing people’s daily worlds, locating the self and others in them, making sense of the actions and interpreting the motives of others, for grounding an analysis of interests, for linking identities to political action, and for predisposing people and groups toward some actions and away from others. Culture does these things by organizing meanings and meaning-making, defining social and political identity, structuring collective actions, and imposing a normative order on politics and social life.
Downloads
References
Almond, Gabriel and G. Bingham Powell (1966). Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach. Boston: Little, Brown.
Aronoff, Myron J. (2001). "Political Culture." In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavior Sciences, eds. Neil J. Smelser y Paul B. Baltes. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Avruch, Kevin y Peter W. Black (1993). "Conflict Resolution in Intercultural Settings: Problems and Prospects." In Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice Integration and Application, (eds.) D. Sandole y H. Van der Merwe. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Barth, Frederic ed. (1969). Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference. Boston: Little, Brown.
Barth, Frederic (1999). "Comparative Methodologies in the Analysis of Anthropological Data". In Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture, eds. John Bowen and Roger D. Petersen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bates, Robert H. Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr. and Barry S. Weingast (1998). "The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition." Politics and Society 26(4): 603–642.
Berger, Bennett M. (1995). An Essay on Culture: Symbols, Structure and Social Structure. Berkeley y Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Berman, Sheri (2001). "Ideas, Norms and Culture in Political Analysis." Comparative Politics 33(3): 231–250.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1977). The Logic of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Foucault, Michel (1979). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.
Bowen, John and Roger D. Petersen, eds. (1999). Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bowen, John (2007). Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Brysk, Allison (1995). "Hearts and Minds: Bringing Symbolic Politics Back In." Polity 27: 559–585.
Campbell, Donald T. (1983). "Two Distinct Routes Beyond Kin Selection to Ultrasociality: Implications for the Humanities and Social Sciences." In The Nature of Prosocial Development: Theories and Strategies, (ed.) D. L. Bridgeman. New York: Academic Press.
Campbell, Donald T. and Donald W. Fiske (1959). "Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix." Psychological Bulletin 56: 81–105.
Chabal, Patrick y Jean-Pascal Daloz (2006). Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cohen, Abner (1969). Custom and Politics in Urban Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cohen, Abner (1974). Two-Dimensional Man: An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cohen, Abner (1981). The Politics of Elite Culture: Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cohen, Abner (1993). Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cohen, Raymond (1990). Culture and Conflict in Egyptian–Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Cohen, Raymond (1991). Negotiating across Cultures: Communication Obstacles in International Diplomacy. Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace Press.
Cosgrove, Denis E. (1998). Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Croft, Stuart (2006). Culture, Crisis and America’s War on Terror. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crozier, Michel (1964). The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
D’Andrade, Roy G. (1984). "Cultural Meaning Systems." In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion, eds. Richard A. Schweder and Robert A. LeVine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D’Andrade, Roy G. (1992). "Schemas and Motivation," In Human Motives and Cultural Models, eds. Roy D’Andrade and Claudia Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D’Andrade, Roy G. and Claudia Strauss (1992). Human Motives and Cultural Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Darnton, Robert (1985). The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books.
Dayan, Daniel, and Elihu Katz (1992). Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Eckstein, Harry, Frederic J. Fleron Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann and William M. Reisinger with Richard Ahl, Russell Bova and Philip G. Roeder (1998). Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?: Explorations in State–Society Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Edelman, Murray J. (1964). The Symbolic Uses of Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Edelman, Murray J. (1988). Constructing the Political Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Eller, Jack David (1999). From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on International Ethnic Conflict. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Fearon, James and Alexander Wendt (2003). "Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View." In Handbook of International Relations, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmons. London: Sage Publications.
Fearon, James and David D. Laitin (2000). "Ordinary Language and External Validity: Specifying Concepts in the Study of Ethnicity." Paper presented at the meeting of Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes, University of Pennsylvania. October 20–22.
Geertz, Clifford (1973a). "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture." In The Interpretation of Cultures, ed. Clifford Geertz. New York: Basic Books.
Geertz, Clifford (1973c). Religion as a Cultural System: The Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basic Books.
Goode, Judith and Joanne A. Schneider (1994). Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Green, Daniel M. (2002). "Constructivist Comparative Politics." In Constructivism and Comparative Politics, ed. Daniel M. Green. Armonk, NY, and London: M. E. Sharpe.
Greif, Avner (1994). "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualistic Societies." Journal of Political Economy 102: 912–950.
Gusfield, Joseph R. (1966). Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Hafez, Mohammed M. (2007). Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom. Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace Press.
Harrison, Lawrence E. and Samuel P. Huntington, eds. (2000). Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books.
Horowitz, Donald L. (1985). Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Horowitz, Donald L. (2002). "The Primordialists." In Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism, ed. Daniele Conversi. London: Routledge.
Huntington, Samuel P. (1993). "The Clash of Civilizations." Foreign Affairs 72(3): 22–49.
Inglehart, Ronald (1988). "The Renaissance of Political Culture." American Political Science Review 82: 1203–1230.
Jackman, Robert W. and Ross A Miller (1996). "A Renaissance of Political Culture?" American Journal of Political Science 40(3). 632–659.
Kelman, Herbert (1987). "The Political Psychology of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: How Can We Overcome Barriers to a Negotiated Solution?" Political Psychology 8: 347–363.
Kertzer, David I. (1988). Ritual, Pod Plitics anower. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press.
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba (1994). Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Klotz, Audie and Cecilia Lynch (2007). Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Kroeber, A. L. and Clyde Kluckholm (1952). "Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions." Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology 47(1).
Kurtz, Donald V. (1991). "Strategies of Legitimation and the Aztec State." In Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior, eds. Frank McGlynn and Arthur Tuden. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Laitin, David D. (1986). Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Laitin, David D. (1988). "Political Culture and Political Preference." American Political Science Review 82: 589–593.
Laitin, David D. (1995). "National Revivals and Violence." Archives Européennes de Sociologie 36: 3–43.
LeVine, Robert A. (1984). "Properties of Culture: An Ethnographic View." In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion, eds. Richard A. Schweder and Robert A. LeVine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Linenthal, Edward Tabor (1993). Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Linenthal, Edward Tabor (2001). Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Columbia University Press.
Lustick, Ian S. (2006). Trapped in the War on Terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Matthews, Donald R. (1962). U.S. Senators and Their World. New York: W. W. Norton.
Merelman, Richard M. (1991). Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada and the United States. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Norton, Anne (2004). 95 Theses on Culture, Politics and Method. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press.
Ortner, Sherry (1997). "Introduction." Representations 59: 1–13.
Petersen, Roger. D. (2002). Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Petersen, Roger. D. (2005). "Memory and Cultural Schema: Linking Memory to Political Action." In Memory and World War II, ed. Francesca Cappelletto. New York: Berg.
Posner, Daniel N. (2004). "The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi." American Political Science Review 98(4): 529–546.
Regan, Patrick M. (1994). "War Toys, War Movies and the Militarization of the United States, 1900–85." Journal of Peace Research 31: 45–58.
Ross, Marc Howard and Elizabeth L. Homer (1976). "Galton’s Problem in Cross-National Research." World Politics 24: 1–28.
Ross, Marc Howard (1993a). The Culture of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press.
Ross, Marc Howard (1997). "Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis." In Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, eds. Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ross, Marc Howard (2002). "The Political Psychology of Competing Narratives: September 11 and Beyond." In Understanding September 11, eds. Craig Calhoun, Paul Price and Ashley Timmer. New York: New Press.
Ross, Marc Howard (2007). Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ross, Marc Howard. ed. (2008). Culture and Belonging: Symbolic Landscapes and Contesting Identity in Divided Societies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Schweder, Richard A. and Robert A. LeVine, eds. (1984). Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Scott, James C. (1985). Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Spiro, Melford (1984). "Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism and Relativism with Special Reference to Emotion and Reason." In Culture Theory: Essayson Mind, Self and Emotion, eds. Richard A. Schweder and Robert A. LeVine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Strauss, Claudia (1992). "Models and Motives." In Human Motives and Cultural Models, eds. Roy G. D’Andrade and Claudia Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swidler, Ann (1986). "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review 51(2): 273–286.
Taylor, Charles (1985). "Interpretation and the Sciences of Man." In Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thompson, Michael and Richard Ellis (1990). Culture Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Tilly, Charles (1986). The Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tilly, Charles (1995a). "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain, 1758–1834." In Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action, ed. Michael Traugott. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press.
Traugott, Michael ed. (1995). Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press.
Turner, Victor (1957). Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.
Turner, Victor (1968). "Mukanda: The Politics of a Non-Political Ritual." In Local-Level Politics, ed. Marc J. Swartz. Chicago: Aldine.
Urban, Greg (1999). "The Role of Comparison in the Light of the Theory of Culture." In Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture, eds. John Bowen and Roger D. Petersen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Verba, Sidney, Norman Nie and Jae-on Kim (1978). Participation and Political Equality: A Cross-National Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Volkan, Vamik D. (1997). Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Wedeen, Lisa (1999). Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wedeen, Lisa (2002). "Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science." American Political Science Review 96(4): 713–728.
Whiting, Beatrice Blythe (1980). "Culture and Social Behavior: A Model for the Development of Social Behavior." Ethos 8: 95–116.
Wildavsky, Aaron (1987). "Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Culturalist Theory of Preference Formation". American Political Science Review 81: 3–21.