The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II The New Durkheimians

Contents: Volume 1: Introduction: Part I Theory: Four cultures: the evolution of a parsimonious model, Mary Douglas; Institutions: problems of theory, Mary Douglas; Traditional culture - let's hear no more about it, Mary Douglas; Why self-interest means less outside of a social context: cultural contributions to a theory of rational choices, Aaron Wildavsky; Cultural contributions to explaining institutional form, political change and rational decisions, Charles Lockhart; What is there to feel? A neo-Durkheimian theory of the emotions, Perri 6; Hi and low - in and out: approaches to social status, M.E.A. Schmutzer and W. Bandler; Cultural theory without grid and group, Michael Thompson; Institutional viability: a neo-Durkheimian theory, Perri 6. Part II Methods: Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why?, Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake; A quantitative test of the culture theory of risk perceptions: comparison with the psychometric paradigm, Claire Marris, Ian H. Langford and Timothy O’Riordan; Risk as politics, culture as power, James Tansey; Cultural theory and risk perception: a proposal for a better measurement, Susan Rippl. Part III Politics: Control over bureaucracy: cultural theory and institutional variety, Christopher Hood; Joined-up government in the Western world in comparative perspective: a preliminary literature review and exploration, Perri 6; Are you sitting comfortably ... then we'll begin: three gripping policy stories about pension reform, Steven Ney; Comparing political orientations: grid-group theory versus the left-right dimension in the 5 Nordic countries, Gunnar Grendstad; Life is a lottery: New Labour's strategy for the reform of developed governance, G. Stoker; The rules that keep us equal: complexity and costs of egalitarian organisation, Steve Rayner; New political violence in Africa: secular sectarianism in Sierra Leone, Paul Richards; Can policy making be evidence-based?, Perri 6; Cultural pluralism can both strengthen a

Biography

Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy, Nottingham Trent University, UK and Gerald Mars, Honorary Professor of Anthropology, University College London, UK.