Why and How Culture Matters

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Thompson, Michael ^a,b,c   Verweij, Marco ^d   Ellis, Richard J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Australia)

^d SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Climate change; Constrained relativism; Culture; Political science; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066392112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199270439.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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