On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics

1. Front Matter

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2. Transformation Theory

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Historical Memories in Political Theories: ‘Conservative Revolutions’ on the Road from the ‘Culte Du Moi’ to the ‘Culte Du Nous’

      • Klaus von Beyme

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   3. Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 19-33

   4. The Concept of Totalitarianism: A Reassessment After the Breakdown of Communist Rule

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 35-47

   5. Political Culture: A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Communist Social Sciences

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 49-63

   6. Institutions and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 65-79

   7. Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Evidence from Empirical Data

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 81-97

3. Cultural Policies

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Why Is There No Political Science of the Arts?

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 101-116

   3. Historical Memory and the Arts in the Era of the Avant-Garde: Archaism and Neo-Primitivism as a ‘Passéisme for the Future’

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 117-139

   4. Capital-Building in Post-War Germany

      • Klaus von Beyme

      Pages 141-156

4. Back Matter

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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 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” and “Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Evidence from Empirical Data”. The second part on cultural policies addresses “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’”, and “Capital-building in Post-war Germany”.

• Art and Politics
• Cultural Policy
• Political Culture
• Political Science
• Political Theory

• Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Klaus Beyme

Beyme has repeatedly been accorded recognition for his scientific activities, amongst others, in 1995 Honorary Membership of the Humboldt University in Berlin, in 1998 the University Medal of the University of Heidelberg, and in 2001 an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern. Furthermore, he is a Member of the Academia Europaea and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 2008, he was honoured with the Schader Prize. On 2 September 2010 Beyme was honoured for his "enormous contribution to the development of Political Science in Europe and the entire world" and for his many years as Professor of Political Science at different universities around the world with an Honorary Professorship at Lomonosov University in Moscow. A study in 1998 ranked Beyme in the Top Ten of the world's Political Scientists.

Policies and ethics