Culture and Compliance: A Negative Assessment of Positive Values  

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Gibson, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs vol. 12 no. 01 (Jun. 1990), page 55-72.
Topik: culture; Development

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C12 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Calls for deliberate inculcation of positive social or moral values are commonplace. This article reviews one such proposal, which suggests that government-sponsored "cultural renewal" can help developing countries enlist the compliance of their citizens and overcome a destructive politics of self-interest. The reviewer welcomes the proposal's stress upon politics as a prime determinant of development outcomes, but faults its reliance upon value orientations as a basis for, or predictor of, political behavior. As an analytical approach, interpretation of politics in terms of values sows confusion, as empirical cases show. As a guide to political practice, enabling government to become the arbiter and enforcer of positive values encourages authoritarianism. Such a set of values in the hands of government will more likely be employed selectively as a political means rather than universally for development, ends. The article suggests that the study of interests offers richer grounds for analyzing issues of compliance and development.

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