Political Culture and Communist Studies
Author | : Archie Brown |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349177164 |
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Author | : Archie Brown |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349177164 |
Author | : S. Whitefield |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2005-10-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230524621 |
Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing 'rational choice' and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.
Author | : Stephen Welch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349227935 |
'...erudite, thought-provoking and well-written.'Archie Brown, Professor of Politics, Oxford University. The return to prominence of the concept of political culture offers an opportunity to re-evaluate its contribution to the social sciences. This study casts a broader than usual net, embracing not only political science (with equal emphasis placed on the concept's use in communist studies), but also sociology and history. On this basis a distinctive theory of political culture, and not merely another typology, is developed. Political culture, instead of being a token in the sterile debate between interest- and culture-based explanation, offers the means of transcending that debate.
Author | : David R. Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Poland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael E. Brown |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0853458529 |
This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it expressed, particularly in the period from 1930 to 1960. They look at the impact of the party and its followers in the areas of education, literature, and the arts, in the African-American community, and on the women's and labor movements. In their preface, the editors place the book in the context of the broader critical examination of the history of the left in the United States. By analyzing the historical reasons for the party's appeal and its relationship to those outside its ranks, the volume contributes to a fuller understanding of the broader societal context within which all oppositional movements are formed. Contributors (in order of appearance in book): Michael E. Brown, Mark Naison, John Gerassi, Stephen Leberstein, Ellen Schrecker, Rosalyn Baxandall, Roger Keeran, Gerald Horne, Annette T. Rubinstein, Marvin E. Gettleman, Alan Wald, and Gil Green (interviewed by Anders Stephanson).
Author | : Jr. Fleron |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000307794 |
Serious stock-taking is in progress now among practitioners of whathas been called Sovietology, meaning studies of the Union of SovietSocialist Republics. The reason is that the field for the most part hadnot been expecting what happened in 1991: The USSR collapsed andwent out of existence as a unified state system governing a sixth ofthe world's territory, having allowed its East European empire tofree itself from Soviet dominance somewhat earlier.It might be said in defense of Sovietology that, by the beginningof the 1980s, it understood that economic and political crises werebrewing in the Soviet Union and its outer empire. But the field asa whole failed to grasp the full depth of the systemic crisis in SovietRussia and the destructive or self-destructive potentialities inherentin it. As the editors of this valuable volume write in the Introduction:"Sovietology was not prepared for perestroika and postcommunism."
Author | : Terry D. Clark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315498723 |
This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrated into the mainstream of political science research, and not consigned forever to a transitional category encompassing countries that are now fully democracies as well as some that are not democratic at all. The author outlines the steps of another transition - from post-communist studies to political science research. He demonstrates how institutionalist, or rational choice, theories can be applied to the analysis of political processes in the successfully democratized countries, and proposes a new research agenda for political scientists studying the region. The results of this work can enrich political science as well as our understanding of both democracy and the polities of contemporary Eastern Europe.
Author | : Stephen White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey C. Goldfarb |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745637485 |
The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity and invention. In Reinventing Political Culture, this resource is uncovered and explored. Analyzed as a tension between the power of culture and the culture of power, the concept of political culture is reinvented and applied to understanding the practice of people transforming their own political culture in very different circumstances. Three instances of such reinvention are closely examined: one historic, during the twilight of the Soviet empire; one actively in process and actively opposed, ‘the Obama revolution'; and one an apparent distant dream, the power of culture and the culture of power that would avoid ‘the clash of civilizations' in the Middle East. In accessible and engaging prose, Goldfarb clearly and forcefully presents students and scholars of sociology, comparative politics, and cultural studies with an original position on political culture, showing how the political cultures of our times pose not only grave dangers, but also opportunities for creative alternatives.
Author | : Archie Brown |
Publisher | : [London] : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |