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    A political-cultural map of Europe. Family structures and the origins of differences between national political cultures in the European Union (1999)
    Springer
    GeoJournal 47 (1999), S. 477-486 
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    ISSN: 1572-9893
    Keywords: cultural theory ; European Union ; family structure ; grid-group analysis ; political culture
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geography
    Notes: Abstract Differences between the national political cultures of the European states are puzzling. They are too often taken for granted or treated as an elusive explanation for residual differences that can not be accounted for in comparative politics. Here they are put at the core of a comparative analysis. This article explores the origins of differences between national political cultures. It deals with national political cultures from the perspective of Cultural Theory or grid-group analysis. A national political culture is conceived as a ‘conversation’ between subcultures associated to national political institutions and practices (and not as an aggregated pattern of individual orientations toward political objects). National political cultures can be characterised on the basis of ideal typical patterns of relations between the basic cultures or rationalities distinguished by Cultural Theory. After an assessment of the differences between the national political cultures of the Member States of the European Union, the paper considers traditional family structures as possible sources of differentiation, elaborating upon the work of the French political historian Emmanuel Todd who has documented the correspondence between the geography of traditional family structures and the geography of ideologies in Europe.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007057527547
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    Four cultures: the evolution of a parsimonious model (1999)
    Springer
    GeoJournal 47 (1999), S. 411-415 
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    ISSN: 1572-9893
    Keywords: cultural bias ; cultural theory ; grid-group analysis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geography
    Notes: Abstract Cultural theory works with a parsimonious model of four cultural types, each emanating from a specific form of organisation. The four types are identified as attitudes and values that justify the organisation. The hierarchical type, with its ranked levels and symmetrical branchings, depends on the adoption of hierarchical values and the expression of matching judgements. Likewise for the enclavist culture, the individualist culture and that of the isolates. There is no assumption of fixity, on the contrary, the four types are represented in any community, and social life is in permanent tension and flux. This article gives a summary of the early history of the theory.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007008025151
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    Grid-group cultural theory: an introduction (1999)
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    GeoJournal 47 (1999), S. 395-409 
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    ISSN: 1572-9893
    Keywords: cultural bias ; cultural theory ; grid-group analysis ; grid-group cultural theory ; myths of nature ; theory of sociocultural viability
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geography
    Notes: Abstract This article offers an introduction to grid-group cultural theory (also known as grid-group analysis, Cultural Theory or theory of socio-cultural viability), an approach that has been developed over the past thirty years in the work of the British anthropologists Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson, the American political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and many others. This assessment begins with a presentation of the main claims of the theory, distinguishing two characteristic breads of grid-group cultural theory, in the one it is conceived as a heuristic device, in the other it is seen as a full explanatory theory. This brief is followed by a discussion of the typology generated by the theory. This includes a presentation of the two dimensions of sociality it posits, the cultural map they produce, as well as the four (or five) cultural types derived from them and their designations. The article proceeds with a discussion of key issues including the incorporation of other typologies (such as the one developed to analyse myths of nature), the relations between cultures or rationalities and several methodological issues. Finally the article introduces the contributions to this special issue of the GeoJournal.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007024008646
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    New political violence in Africa – Secular sectarianism in Sierra Leone (1999)
    Springer
    GeoJournal 47 (1999), S. 433-442 
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    ISSN: 1572-9893
    Keywords: Africa ; civil war ; cultural theory ; rebellion ; Sierra Leone ; violence ; youth combatants
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geography
    Notes: Abstract Mary Douglas (1993) has indicated some of the shared concerns that keep voluntary enclaves together as ‘social movements’. The present paper describes a rather different kind of enclave politics, being concerned with the ‘new violence’ of groups enclaved by social exclusion and force. The paper focuses on the emergence and subsequent development of dissidents in the civil war in Sierra Leone. The RUF was at the outset a tiny but conventional guerrilla force, modelled on one of the militias in the Liberian civil war, and seeking to overthrow a decayed neo-patrimonial ‘one-party’ regime. Gaining little popular support, its members became marooned in forested isolation on the Liberia-Sierra Leone border. Recruits were mainly school children seized by force and ‘converted’ through having to take part in atrocities against rural civilians. Unable to return to the larger society on pain of summary execution, captives have had little option but to adjust to the political fantasies of a violent and unstable leadership. They were enclaved by force. Indicating the predictive strength of Douglas' arguments about the cultural dynamics of the enclave, the subsequent atrocity-drenched story of the RUF suggests that it is not the content of belief that determines institutional culture but vice versa. To survive, the enforced enclave develops the concerns of the classic ‘sect’ - a doctrinaire ‘rationality’ (expressed in crude acts of ‘subtractive’ violence), rejection of magic, decision making by lots, preoccupation with defection, otiose leadership style. If the rest of the world is to come to terms with violent enclave organizations such as the RUF and Algerian GIA it may have to pay more careful attention to the way enclave institutions think. They may not respond ‘rationally’ to the kinds of incentives offered by mainstream groups organised around hierarchical and/or individualist systems of social accountability.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007022508582
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    Party organisation and democracy – A comparison of Les Verts and the British Green Party (1999)
    Springer
    GeoJournal 47 (1999), S. 487-496 
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    ISSN: 1572-9893
    Keywords: cultural theory ; green parties ; party organisation ; political culture ; political opportunity structure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geography
    Notes: Abstract The environment is the issue most closely identified with the Green movement. However, a commitment to the rejuvenation of political practices has been equally important in the development of their partisan organisations. Green party members share the conviction that democracy is the best way to attain a sustainable society. They aspire to a more participatory politics and have translated their ideals of equality and individual fulfilment into alternative party structures. Many of their practices demonstrate that they share values and attitudes which inspire their behaviours and intra-party regulations. However, Green parties are also influenced by the national structure of political opportunities. The practical arrangements French and British Greens have developed reflect their relative integration within the political system as well as the influence of national political culture on conceptions of equality and participation.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007011427704
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