Politics, policy, and culture

Abstract

Part 1 Public policy: ideology, culture and risk perception, Hank Jenkins-Smith and Walter K. Smith This is your land, this is my land - cultural conflict in environmental land-use regulation, D.J. Coyle cars and culture in Munich and Birmingham - the case for cultural pluralism, Frank Hendriks cultural influences on policies concerning mental illness, Brendon Swedlow. Part 2 History: a cultural analysis of populism in late-19th-century America, Gary Lee Malecha the social construction of slavery, R.J. Ellis cultural theory and historical change - the development of town and church in Puritan New England, Dean C. Hammer. Part 3 Theory: culture, rationality and violence, Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky cultural theory and the problem of moral relativism, Charles Lockhart and Gregg Franzwa conceptualizing and operationalizing cultural theory, Richard P. Boyle and Richard M. Coughlin the theory that would be king, D.J. Coyle.