On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics

• Main Author: Beyme, Klaus von (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 15
• Subjects: Environment.; Culture > Study and teaching.; History.; Political science.; Architecture.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Social sciences.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Political Science.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Architectural History and Theory.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; History of Science.

Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012). In honour of his 80th birthday this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part on transformation theory analyses: “Historical Me...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Transformation Theory
• Historical Memories in Political Theories
• Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of ethnic Subsystems
• The Concept of Totalitarianism – A Reassessment after the Breakdown of Soviet Rule
• Political Culture – A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Soviet Social Sciences
• Institutions and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
• Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe
• Evidences from Empirical Data
• Part II Cultural Policies
• Why is there no Political Science of the Arts?
• Historical Memory and the Arts in the Era of the Avantgardes: Archaisme and Passéisme as a ‘passéisme of the future’
• Capital-building in Post-war Germany.