Political Culture as a Catalyst for Political Change in American Cities

Bibliographic Data

ID2371604
AuthorsStephen J Mcgovern (Department of Political Science, Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume23
Issue1
Pages81-114
Publication date1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089692059702300104
OpenAlexW2081491887
LanguageEN
References cited31

Urban scholars generally agree that structural constraints limit the capacity of public officials to govern their cities efficiently and equitably. This paper considers how a transformation in the local political culture may expand policy options. Ronald Inglehart's theory of postmaterial cultural change and Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony/counterhegemony are evaluated in the context of one of the more successful urban protest movements during the past two decades - the San Francisco growth-control movement. The Gramscian framework may provide the more promising approach to understanding enduring cultural/political change in American cities

Hegemony · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban politics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · History · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Social and Cultural Dynamics