Presentation topic 2: How do you measure culture?

Suggested readings:

Alesina, Alberto, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly, Sergio Kurlat and Romain Wacziarg. 2003. “Fractionalization,” Journal of Economic Growth. 8:155-94

Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Banks, Arthur S. and Robert B. Textor. 1963. A Cross-Polity Survey. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Eckstein, Harry. 1988. Essays on Political Theory, Stability and Change. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Elkins, David J. and Richard E.B. Simeon. 1979. “A Cause in Search of Its Effects, or What Does Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics. 11:127-45.

Erikson, Robert S., Michael B. Mackuen and James S. Stimson. 2002. The Macro Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fearon, J. (2002), Ethnic Structure and Cultural Diversity around the World: A Cross-National Data Set on Ethnic Groups, unpublished, Stanford University, August.

Fearon, James. D. 2003. “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country.” Journal of Economic Growth. 8:195-222

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. London: Basic Books

Glaeser, E, Laibson, D, Scheinkman, J, and Soutter, C. 2000. “Measuring Trust”. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 65: 811-846.

Granato, Jim, Ronald Inglehart and David Leblang. 1996. “The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development: Theory, Hypotheses, and Some Empirical Tests.” American Journal of Political Science. 40:607-631

Greif, Avner. 1994. “Cultural beliefs and The Organization of Society. A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies.” Journal of Political Economy. 105:912-950.

Huntington, Samuel. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs 72:22

Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1988. “The Renaissance of Political Culture.” American Political Science Review. 82:1203-30.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1990. Culture Shift. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jackman, Robert W. and Ross A. Miller. 1988. “Social Capital and Politics?” Annual Review of Political Science. 1:43-73

Jackman, Robert W. and Ross A. Miller. 1996a. “The Poverty of Political Culture.”American Journal of Political Science. 40: 697-716

Jackman, Robert W. and Ross A. Miller. 1996b. “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal of Political Science. 40: 632-659

Jacobs, Lawrence R., and Robert Y Shapiro. 2002. "Crafted Talk and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness." In Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy, edited by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook and Benjamin Page. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnston, Gordon and Janie Percy-Smith. 2003. “In Search of Social Capital.” Policy and Politics. 31:321-34.

Keele, Luke. 2005. “Macro Measures and Mechanics of Social Capital.” Political Analysis. Forthcoming.

Knack, Stephen and Phillip Keefer (1997) "Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation" Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 1251-88.

La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andre Shleifer and Robert Vishny (1997) “Trust in Large Organizations,” The American Economic Review 87 (2): 333-345.

Laitin, David D. “What Is a Language Community?”, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 44, No. 1. (Jan., 2000), pp. 142-155.

Laitin, David D. and Aaron Wildavsky. 1988. “Political Culture and Political Preferences.” American Political Science Review. 82:589-96.

Levinson D. Ethnic Groups Worldwide, A Ready Reference Handbook, Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998. (Lehman-Social Work Reference (Non-Circulating) GN325 .L46 1998)

Minority Rights Group International, World Directory of Minorities, London : Minority Rights Group International, c1997. (Lehman-Social Work Reference (Non-Circulating) GN495.4 .W67 1997)

Narayan, Deepa and Lant Pritchett. 1997. “Cents and Sociability. Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania.” Economic Development and Cultural Change. 47:871-93

Newton, Kenneth. 1999. “Social and Political Trust.” in Pippa Norris, ed. Critical Citizens: Global Confidence in Democratic Government. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Posner, Daniel. 2004. “The Political Salience of Cultural Differences: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi.” American Political Science Review. 98:529-46.

Powell Jr., G. Bingham, Contemporary Democracies. Participation, Stability and Violence (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), pp. 41-53. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JF51 .P66 1982)

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work. Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Putnam, Robert D. 1995. Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America.” PS: Political Science and Politics. 28:664-83

Putnam, Robert D. 2000. Bowling Alone. The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster

Scarrit J. and S. Moza.ar (1999), “The Specification of Ethnic Cleavages and Ethnopolitical Groups for the Analysis of Democratic Competition in Contemporary Africa”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 5, no.1, Spring, pp. 82-117. (LEHMAN JC311 .N323)

Temple, Jonathan and Paul Johnson (1998) “Social Capability and Economic Growth” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113(3):965-90.

Woolcock, Michael and Deepa Narayan (2000) “Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research and Policy” World Bank Research Observer 15(2):