The State as Cultural Practice

by R.A.W. Rhodes and Mark Bevir

Book Overview

The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199580758
• ISBN13: 9780199580750
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"