Culture Matters: Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky [Hardcover]

Richard J Ellis (Author), Michael Thompson (Author), EDITOR * (Editor)

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Publication Date: September 4, 1997 | ISBN-10: 081333117X | ISBN-13: 978-0813331171 | Edition: First Edition

Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Culture theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavsky’s teaching and research for the last decade of his life, a life that profoundly affected many fields of political science from the study of the presidency to public budgeting. Hence, in this volume, original essays prepared in Wildavsky’s honor examine the arenas of rationale choice, institutions, theories of change, political risk, the environment, and practical politics.

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About the Author

Michael Thompson is director of the Musgrave Institute in London and honorary research fellow at the Department of Geography at University College London. Richard Ellis is assistant professor of political science at Willamette University. The late Aaron Wildavsky was professor of political science and public policy and a member of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Michael Thompson is director of the Musgrave Institute in London and honorary research fellow at the Department of Geography at University College London. Richard Ellis is assistant professor of political science at Willamette University. The late Aaron Wildavsky was professor of political science and public policy and a member of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Westview Press; First Edition edition (September 4, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081333117X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813331171
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,905,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A must read read book for political scientists, July 2, 1999

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This review is from: Culture Matters: Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky (Paperback)

In this collection of essays in honor of Professor Aaron Wildavsky you may found and interest approach the the cultural theory. Eventhough it is a very good compilation of about the relationship among culture and politics, it lacks of the relation culture-development, which must be seen as the forgotten piece in the definition of development models and theories in the next century. However this is a must read book for every political science student and for political scientis, politicians and academicians. but it need to be more developed the relation culture-development in order to understand why some nation develop better than others.