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Before Norms: Institutions and Civic Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Marc Hooghe
Marc Hooghe
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Catholic University of Leuven
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Before Norms: Institutions and Civic Culture. By Robert W. Jackman and Ross A. Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 262p. $70.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

With this volume, Robert Jackman and Ross Miller pursue a twofold ambition. First, they want to demonstrate that most of the research on political culture and the impact of values on political behavior can be questioned, both on theoretical as on methodological grounds. Second, they want to demonstrate that their theoretical model, based on the assumption that actors optimize their behavior within durable institutional restraints, is better able to explain what people do with regard to politics.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 667 - 668
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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