Week 2 supplemental readings: The cultural context

Inglehart, Ronald (1997) Modernization and Postmodernization:Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES HM101 .I554 1997)

Bates, Robert, Rui Figueiredo Jr and Barry Weingast (1998) "The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition" Politics & Society 26(2):221-235. 

David D. Laitin. Hegemony and culture : politics and religious change among the Yoruba (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1986). (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES DT515.45.Y67 L35 1986)

Laitin, David, and Aaron Wildavsky, “Political Culture and Political Preferences,” American Political Science Review, 82 no. 2, (June 1988), pp. 589-596.

David D. Laitin, “The Tower of Babel as a Coordination Game: Political Linguistics in Ghana” American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 3. (Sep., 1994), pp. 622-634.

Avner Greif, Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders in The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4. (Dec., 1989), pp. 857-882.

Kreps, David, "Corporate Culture and Economic Theory," in Alt, Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990). (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES HB99.5 .P47 1990)