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. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. 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. If you are one among the person who is looking out to have a career in this field, then you must work hard and have the dedication to achieve your. 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. Political Science comprises of many subfields like comparative politics, political economy, international relations, political theory, public administration, public policy, and political methodology.

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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