Preface  -  Sun-Ki Chai and Brendon Swedlow

Introduction     

       Political Cultures
       with Michael Thompson and Richard Ellis

I. Economists and The Social Construction of Distinctions

    1. On the Social Construction of Distinctions: Risk, 
       Rape, Public Goods and Altruism

    2. Why the Traditional Distinction Between Public and 
       Private Goods Should be Abandoned 
       with Jesse Malkin 

    3. At Once Ubiquitous and Elusive, the Concept of 
       Externalities is Either Vacuous or Misapplied.
       with David Fogerty and Claude Jeanrenaud

    4. The Social Construction of Cooperation: Egalitarian, 
       Hierarchical and Individualistic Faces of Altruism 
       with Charles Lockhart 

II. Philosophers, Political Theory and Democracy

    5. If Institutions have Consequecnes, Why Don't We Hear 
       about Them from Moral Philosophers?

    6. Thomas Hobbes and his Critics: Implications of 
       Culture Theory for Interpreting Hobbes and his 
       Critics
       with Magnus Enzell

    7. The Multicultural Mill
       with Charles Lockhart

    8. On the Absence of Egalitarianism and Fatalism in 
       Political Theorizing, or What Political Culture can 
       Contribute to Understanding Democracy

III. Rational Choice Theory 

    9. Indispensable Framework or Just Another Ideology: 
       Prisoner's Dilemma as an Antihierarchical Game

   10. Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of a Social 
       Context: Cultural Contributions to a Theory of  Rational Choice 
       
   11. Can Norms Rescure Self-Interst or Macro explanation 
       be Joined to Micro Explanation? 
       
   12. Cultural Theory, Rationality and Political Violence
       with Sun-Ki Chai
       
   13. Cultural Change, Party Ideology and Voting Stability 
       with Sun-Ki Chai