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The Idea of Political Culture: Varying Refractions - James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1991. Pp. iii, 416. $25.00). - Richard Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. i, 287. $40.00 hardcover, $15.95 paper). - Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. iii, 200. $22.50).
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James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1991. Pp. iii, 416. $25.00).
Richard Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. i, 287. $40.00 hardcover, $15.95 paper).
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. iii, 200. $22.50).
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1. For overviews of the historical scholarship on political culture, see Kelley, Robert, The Cultural Pattern in American Politics: The First Century (New York, 1979), 3–28Google Scholar and McCormick, Richard L., The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (New York, 1986), 29–63.Google Scholar
2. Thus, see Seymore Martin Lipset's recent brilliant study, Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada (New York, 1990).Google Scholar
3. This is not being said out of offended amour propre, since my own work is cited and drawn upon, though, surprisingly, that which is explicitly comparative of the transatlantic triangle is not in evidence.