It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. The list has a strong focus on political theory, as you might expect, and therefore includes mostly books on politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of the law by the. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. The Political Science Books Top 100 list presents the best works of political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and public law. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science.
In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science.
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