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100			_aHanson, Stephen E.
245			_aFrom culture to ideology in comparative politics: (a review article)
260			_c2003
300			_ap.355-76.
362			_aApr
520			_aFour recent books focus on the importance of the subjective orientations of social actors in empirical political outcomes, but they attempt to overcome the methodological and conceptual problems of research in the culturalist tradition in different ways. There has been a move toward greater specificity in defining the particular kinds of belief systems that can serve as independent variables. This welcome trend indicates the importance of distinguishing more clearly between ideologies - formal, explicit, relatively consistent definitions of political community articulated by political elites - and cultures - informal, implicit, relatively inconsistent understandings of political community held by people within a given institutional setting. - Reproduced.
650			_aPolitics and government
773			_aComparative Politics
909			_a56272
999			_c56272 _d56272