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The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan by Tianjian Shi

By Tianjian Shi

Tianjian Shi indicates how cultural norms have an effect on political attitudes and behaviour via causal pathways, one on the person point and one on the group point. concentrating on key norms - definition of self-interest and orientation to authority - he checks the idea with a number of surveys carried out in mainland China and Taiwan. Shi employs multi-level statistical research to teach how, in those very various political platforms, comparable norms exert related sorts of impact on political belief, realizing of democracy, kinds of political participation, and tolerance for protest. The procedure is helping to provide an explanation for the resilience of authoritarian politics in China and the dissatisfaction of many Taiwan citizens with democratic associations. Aiming to put the research of political tradition on a brand new theoretical and methodological beginning, Shi argues really comparative social technological know-how needs to know the way culturally embedded norms effect selection making.

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Causal Mechanisms in Cultural Studies The effects of cultural norms on social action take place in five steps: (Step 1) Cultural norms influence how actors interpret the meaning of social action. Facing an outside stimulus such as a governmental decision, an actor must interpret the decision and comprehend its meaning before he or she decides how to respond. ” A psychological device known as “framing” offers perspective and manipulates the relevance and importance of information to influence the judgment of political actors.

Coleman 1990, 246–47). 19 Second, norms are social phenomena. As individual mental constructs, values reflect individual psychology. An individual’s mental construct can be considered a norm only when it is accepted by a group. ” Norms are: ordinarily enforced by sanctions, which are either rewards for carrying out those actions regarded as correct or punishments for carrying out those actions regarded as incorrect.  . those holding a norm, claim a right to apply sanctions and recognize the right for others holding the This important difference is shaped, in turn, by the way actors acquire norms.

Step 2) Cultural norms provide standards against which people evaluate the behavior of other actors. As established earlier, because these standards vary, two people may reach different conclusions about the same behavior by a political actor. An observer whose norms are can also be categorized as cultural studies, and studies of ideological struggles frequently use subnational groups as their units of analysis. Political Culture Theory and Regime Stability 35 satisfied by the behavior of a political actor will evaluate that ­behavior as ­norm-compliant, whereas another observer may evaluate the same behavior as noncompliant.

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