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Reconciling Universalism and Relativism in Political Culture: A View Based on Economic and Psychological Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Richard W. Wilson
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The concept of political culture was formulated in the postwar period as a way of bringing human motivation more sharply into account in cross-cultural analyses of behavior. A persistent difficulty, however, has involved validating its theoretical premises and methodological criteria. So frustrating has this problem proved to be that many have relegated political culture to a residual category of explanation. Indeed, a major reason for the popularity of the rational-actor paradigm is its effort to circumvent these difficulties by utilizing a value-maximizing dimension for motivation.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 53 - 66
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991

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