Political Culture Political Science and Identity Politics: An Uneasy Alliance

In this important book well known Comparativist Howard J. Wiarda traces the long and controversial history of culture studies and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists institutionalists Marxists and dependency writers Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart Fukuyama Putnam Huntington and many others.