Politics, Policy, and Culture includes essays on risk perception, environmental regulation, and mental health policies and a never-before-published piece on "Culture, Rationality, and Violence," by Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Public Policy -- Ideology, Culture, and Risk Perception -- “This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land”: Cultural Conflict in Environmental and Land-Use Regulation -- Cars and Culture in Munich and Birmingham: The Case for Cultural Pluralism -- Cultural Influences on Policies Concerning Mental Illness -- History -- A Cultural Analysis of Populism in Late-Nineteenth-Century America -- The Social Construction of Slavery -- Cultural Theory and Historical Change: The Development of Town and Church in Puritan New England -- Theory -- Culture, Rationality, and Violence -- Cultural Theory and the Problem of Moral Relativism -- Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Cultural Theory -- The Theory That Would Be King