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American Political Cultures

American Political Cultures

Paperback

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0195111389
ISBN13: 9780195111385
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 12 1996
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.

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