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"Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how this theory complements the now more d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lockhart, Charles, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Older people > Services for > Government policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Politics and culture.
Personnes âgées > Services > Politique gouvernementale > Études transculturelles.
Politique et culture.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Eldercare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics
Politics and culture
Ouderen.
Sociale politiek.
Cultuur.
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins of Social Preferences
  • Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences
  • Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change
  • Introduction to Part Two
  • Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983
  • The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987-1991
  • German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989
  • Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985.

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