Political Culture and Industrial Rationality

THE RATIONALITY OF POLITICAL CULTURE Voter Turnout and Social Capital

Social capital is a concept that can facilitate a friendly merger between sociological and economic theories of political behavior. Rational-choice theories emphasize resources and constraints, and political-cultural theories focus on normative rules and habitual behavior; social capital integrates both. Mutual obligations instituted among members of society function as “credit slips” which are...

Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization

This paper discusses the use of bounded rationality in industrial organization. There is a long tradition of such work: literatures from various decades have discussed irrationalities by firms and consumers. Three main approaches are found in the recent literature: rule-ofthumb papers specify simple rules for behavior; explicit bounds papers consider agents who maximize payoffs net of cognitive...

Chapter 2 – Society, Culture and Political Culture

In order to investigate the relationship between culture and “democracy”, it will first be necessary to take a look at what could be understood by the word « culture ». Here it is assumed that culture, or such a related thing as society, is some sort of socio-anthropological object that is susceptible to scientific research. A philosophical approach that is suitable to deal with anthropological...

Religious Culture and Political Action

Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion ...

Political Culture and Judicial Research