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Protecting the elderly : how culture shapes social policy /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.