Politics of Redistribution: Governance Culture and Public Ethos

Abstract

This chapter examines the catalytic role of the state in shaping a sub-national polity’s public values in terms of its members’ affiliative sentiment toward the nation-state, their political agency within the public sphere and their civic disposition toward fellow citizens. This examination offers a corrective to discussions of a polity’s “national identification” that elide analysis of the state’s institutional apparatus and its culture of governance.