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- catalog abstract ""Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12239753.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.".
- catalog description "Origins of Social Preferences -- Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences -- Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change -- Introduction to Part Two -- Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983 -- The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987-1991 -- German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989 -- Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985.".
- catalog extent "xii, 274 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Protecting the elderly.".
- catalog identifier "0271021306 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Protecting the elderly.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Protecting the elderly.".
- catalog subject "362.6 21".
- catalog subject "HV1451 .L65 2001".
- catalog subject "Older people Services for Government policy Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Politics and culture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Origins of Social Preferences -- Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences -- Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change -- Introduction to Part Two -- Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983 -- The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987-1991 -- German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989 -- Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985.".
- catalog title "Protecting the elderly : how culture shapes social policy / Charles Lockhart.".
- catalog type "text".