American Political Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780195111385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str.

Richard J. Ellis

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Ellis has produced a work that is wide-ranging, stimulating and invites us to see American political debate in a new perspective."—Political Studies