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
Summary
"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 dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index
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