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Cross-state variations in F legislative representation are often explained by political structures. It is suggested that structures are much less important than political cultures. The historical aspects of culture are emphasized. Data from the 1930s are used to test this approach throughout the US at that time; results support the view that political culture is more important than structural variables. 3 Tables. Modified HA.

As crime increasingly crosses national boundaries, and international co-operation takes firmer shape, so the development of ideas and policy on the control of crime has become an increasingly international and transnational affair. This book is concerned both with the very specific issue of 'policy transfer' within the crime control arena, and with the issues raised by a more broadly conceptualized idea of comparative policy analysis.

Despite certain changes in character & direction, the political culture that is now being consolidated in the United States in an effort to regain the country's lost hegemony & legitimize domestic policy is reproducing the themes & tools of the cold war. Terrorism has come to occupy the place that international communism once held. The repressive, intolerant, & violent atmosphere that characterized the cold war has resurfaced today as the new political culture is used to legitimize the use of violence both at home & abroad. References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2007.]