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Countries and Concepts : Politics, Geography, Culture

by: Roskin, Michael G.

Countries and Concepts : Politics, Geography, Culture

by: Roskin, Michael G.

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Edition: 9th
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Copyright: 01/01/2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Eminently readable and written with candor and spirit, this 9th edition ofCountries and Conceptssimply observes that politics is composed of human conflicts or quarrels, forming patterns that can be studied.Analyzing four European nations and Japan at some length and four developing nations more briefly, this text studies the history, institutions, and political culture of each.For political analysts or those in international business that need to grasp the political culture of the country(ies) they're dealing with.

FEATURE BOXES

xix

A NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS

xxxi

CHAPTER 1 THE CONCEPT OF COUNTRY

(15)

The Modern State

(1)

The Rise of Nationalism

(1)

Looking for Quarrels

(1)

The Impact of the Past

(2)

The Key Institutions

(1)

Political Culture

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

(3)

What People Quarrel About

(2)

Key Terms

(1)

Key Web Sites

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

Part I Great Britain

(68)

CHAPTER 2 BRITAIN: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

(12)

Magna Carta

(1)

The Rise of Parliament

(1)

Henry VIII

(1)

Parliament versus King

(1)

Cromwell's Commonwealth

(1)

The "Glorious Revolution"

(1)

The Rise of the Prime Minister

(1)

The Democratization of Parliament

(3)

The Rise of the Welfare State

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 3 BRITAIN: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

(16)

The Monarch

(2)

The Cabinet

(3)

The Prime Minister

(3)

Commons

(2)

How Commons Works

(1)

Peerless Lords

(2)

The Parties

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 4 BRITISH POUTICAL CULTURE

(12)

"Public" Schools

(1)

"Oxbridge"

(1)

Class and Voting

(1)

The Deferential British?

(1)

British Civility

(2)

Pragmatism

(1)

Traditions and Symbols

(1)

Legitimacy and Authority

(1)

The Ulster Ulcer

(2)

A Changing Political Culture

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 5 BRITAIN: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

(12)

National and Local Party

(1)

Politics within the Parties

(4)

Parties and Interest Groups

(1)

The Parties Face Each Other

(1)

The Cabinet and the Civil Servants

(1)

The Civil Service and Interest Groups

(2)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 6 WHAT BRITONS QUARREL ABOUT

(14)

The "British Disease"

(1)

The Thatcher Cure

(4)

The Trouble with National Health

(1)

Is Northern Ireland Settled?

(1)

Britain's Race Problem

(3)

Britain and Europe

(2)

Great Britain or Little England?

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

Part II France

(76)

CHAPTER 7 FRANCE THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

(14)

The Roman Influence

(1)

The Rise of French Absolutism

(2)

Louis XIV: The High Point of Absolutism

(2)

Why the French Revolution?

(2)

From Freedom to Tyranny

(1)

The Bourbon Restoration

(2)

The Third Republic

(1)

Vichy: France Splits Again

(1)

The Fourth Republic

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 8 FRANCE: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

100

(16)

A Semipresidential System

101

(3)

Premier and Cabinet

104

(4)

The National Assembly

108

(2)

A Senate That Fights Back

110

(1)

The French Multiparty System

110

(2)

France's Electoral System

112

(2)

The Constitutional Council

114

(1)

Key Terms

114

(1)

Further Reference

115

(1)

CHAPTER 9 FRENCH POLITICAL CULTURE

116

(16)

Historical Roots of French Attitudes

118

(1)

A Climate of Mistrust

119

(1)

The Nasty Split

120

(2)

School for Grinds

122

(1)

The "Great Schools"

123

(2)

The Fear of "Face to Face"

125

(1)

Freedom or Authority?

126

(1)

Social Class

127

(1)

The Great Calming Down

128

(2)

Key Terms

130

(1)

Further Reference

130

(2)

CHAPTER 10 FRANCE: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

132

(14)

The Emerging Party System

134

(1)

The Demise of the French Communists

135

(1)

The Fractured Right

136

(1)

The Stalemate Cycle

137

(2)

Referendum Madness

139

(2)

Fragmented Labor Unions

141

(1)

Business and the Bureaucracy

141

(2)

The Eternal Bureaucracy

143

(1)

Government by Bureaucracy

144

(1)

Key Terms

145

(1)

Further Reference

145

(1)

CHAPTER 11 WHAT THE FRENCH QUARREL ABOUT

146

(14)

Big Guys versus Little Guys

148

(2)

The Privatization Question

150

(2)

Unemployment: The Giant Problem

152

(2)

France's Racial Problem

154

(3)

France's Education Problems

157

(1)

France and Europe

157

(1)

Key Terms

158

(1)

Further Reference

158

(2)

Part III Germany

160

(100)

CHAPTER 12 GERMANY: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

162

(18)

Who Are the Germans?

163

(2)

The Fragmented Nation

165

(3)

The Rise of Prussia

168

(1)

German Nationalism

168

(2)

The Second Reich

170

(2)

The Catastrophe: World War 1

172

(1)

Republic without Democrats

173

(1)

The Third Reich

174

(2)

The Occupation

176

(2)

Key Terms

178

(1)

Further Reference

178

(2)

CHAPTER 13 GERMANY: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

180

(16)

The President

182

(1)

The Chancellor

183

(2)

The Cabinet

185

(2)

The Bundestag

187

(1)

The Constitutional Court

188

(1)

From "Two-Plus" to Multiparty System?

189

(2)

The Bundesrat

191

(1)

A Split Electoral System

191

(4)

Key Terms

195

(1)

Further Reference

195

(1)

CHAPTER 14 GERMAN POLITICAL CULTURE

196

(14)

The Moral Vacuum

198

(1)

The Remembrance of Things Past

198

(3)

The Generation Gap

201

(1)

A Normal Germany?

202

(2)

The Disorienting Unification

204

(2)

The End of Shell Shock

206

(1)

The German Political Elite

207

(1)

The German Split Personality

208

(1)

Key Terms

208

(1)

Further Reference

209

(1)

CHAPTER 15 GERMANY: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

210

(16)

Parties and the Electorate

211

(3)

The Chancellor and the Electorate

214

(2)

German Dealignment?

216

(2)

The Bundestag and the Citizen

218

(1)

The Union-Party Linkup

219

(1)

The Linder and Berlin

220

(1)

German Voting Patterns

221

(3)

Key Terms

224

(1)

Further Reference

224

(2)

CHAPTER 16 WHAT GERMANS QUARREL ABOUT

226

(14)

The End of the Miracle

228

(3)

How to Merge Two Economies

231

(2)

How Much Welfare?

233

(1)

The Flood of Foreigners

234

(2)

Is Berlin Weimar?

236

(2)

Key Terms

238

(1)

Further Reference

238

(2)

CHAPTER 17 THE EUROPEAN UNION

240

(20)

Impact of the Past

242

(5)

A History of Wishful Thinking

242

(4)

"Ever Closer Union"

246

(1)

The Key Institutions

247

(3)

Democratic Deficit

249

(1)

The Political Culture of the EU

250

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

251

(4)

An Elite Thing

251

(1)

Attack of the Polish Plumbers

252

(3)

What Europeans Quarrel About

255

(3)

Liberal Europe versus Social Europe

255

(1)

Europe's Budget Battles

255

(2)

What Next?

257

(1)

Key Terms

258

(1)

Further Reference

258

(2)

Part IV Russia

260

(76)

CHAPTER 18 RUSSIA: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

262

(16)

The Slavic People

263

(2)

Russian Autocracy

265

(1)

Absolutism or Anarchy?

265

(1)

Forced Modernization

266

(1)

Westernizers and Slavophiles

266

(1)

From Frustration to Revolution

267

(1)

Marxism Comes to Russia

267

(2)

Curtain Raiser: The 1905 Revolution

269

(1)

World War I and Collapse

270

(1)

The Revolution and Civil War

271

(1)

War Communism and NEP

272

(4)

Key Terms

276

(1)

Further Reference

276

(2)

CHAPTER 19 RUSSIA: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

278

(16)

The Stalin System

279

(3)

A Centralized Federal System

282

(3)

The New System

285

(6)

A Party System under Construction

291

(1)

Key Terms

292

(1)

Further Reference

292

(2)

CHAPTER 20 RUSSIAN POLITICAL CULTURE

294

(14)

The Russian Difference

295

(1)

The Mask of Legitimacy

296

(3)

The Illusion of Ideology

299

(1)

The Rediscovery of Civil Society

300

(3)

Natural Egalitarians?

303

(1)

Russian Racism

304

(1)

A Culture of Insecurity

305

(1)

Russia: Paranoid or Normal?

306

(1)

Key Terms

307

(1)

Further Reference

307

(1)

CHAPTER 21 RUSSIA: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

308

(14)

Reformers versus Conservatives

309

(3)

President versus Parliament

312

(2)

The Taming of the Oligarchs

314

(3)

The Mafia

317

(1)

The Army

317

(3)

Transition to What?

320

(1)

Key Terms

320

(1)

Further Reference

320

(2)

CHAPTER 22 WHAT RUSSIANS QUARREL ABOUT

322

(14)

Why the Soviet Union Collapsed

323

(1)

How to Reform?

324

(1)

From the Rubble of the Ruble

325

(3)

Recover the Lost Republics?

328

(4)

A Middle Way for Socialism?

332

(1)

Which Way Russia?

332

(2)

Key Terms

334

(1)

Further Reference

334

(2)

Part V Japan

336

(70)

CHAPTER 23 JAPAN: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

338

(14)

Japanese Feudalism

340

(1)

The European Jolt

341

(1)

The Forced Entry

342

(1)

The 1868 Meiji Restoration

343

(2)

The Path to War

345

(1)

The Great Pacific War

346

(2)

Up from the Ashes

348

(2)

Key Terms

350

(1)

Further Reference

350

(2)

CHAPTER 24 JAPAN: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

352

(14)

The Monarchy

353

(2)

The Prime Minister

355

(2)

The Diet

357

(1)

The Parties

358

(2)

Japan's Electoral System

360

(2)

The Ministries

362

(2)

Japanese Territorial Organization

364

(1)

Key Terms

364

(1)

Further Reference

364

(2)

CHAPTER 25 JAPANESE POLITICAL CULTURE

366

(14)

The Cult of the Group

369

(2)

Education for Grinds

371

(2)

Death of a Sarariman

373

(2)

Political Suicide

375

(1)

The "New Human Race"

376

(2)

Key Terms

378

(1)

Further Reference

379

(1)

CHAPTER 26 JAPAN? PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

380

(12)

Bureaucrats in Command

382

(3)

Corruption Scandals

385

(3)

No One in Charge?

388

(1)

No Losers

389

(1)

Reform without Change

390

(1)

Key Terms

391

(1)

Further Reference

391

(1)

CHAPTER 27 WHAT JAPANESE QUARREL ABOUT

392

(14)

The Japanese Economic Miracle

393

(1)

The Secret of Japan's Success

394

(3)

From Bubble to Burst

397

(1)

Should Japanese Live Better?

398

(3)

Should Japan Re-Arm?

401

(3)

A New Japan?

404

(1)

Key Terms

404

(1)

Further Reference

404

(2)

Part VI China

406

(72)

CHAPTER 28 CHINA: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

408

(14)

The Bureaucratic Empire

409

(6)

The Long Collapse

415

(2)

From Empire to Republic

417

(1)

The Communist Triumph

418

(2)

Key Terms

420

(1)

Further Reference

420

(2)

CHAPTER 29 CHINA: THE KEY INISTITUTIONS

422

(14)

The Importance of the Party

423

(1)

The Soviet Parallel

424

(3)

The Party

427

(4)

The Army

431

(2)

A Unitary System with Chinese Characteristics

433

(1)

Key Terms

434

(1)

Further Reference

434

(2)

CHAPTER 30 CHINESE POLITICAL CULTURE

436

(14)

Traditional Culture

437

(2)

Nationalism

439

(1)

Maoism

440

(3)

Crouching Anger, Hidden Dissent

443

(5)

Proud China

448

(1)

Key Terms

448

(1)

Further Reference

448

(2)

CHAPTER 31 CHINA: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

450

(28)

Cycles of Upheaval

451

(1)

Chinese Liberal and Conservative Politics

452

(2)

Rule by Engineers

454

(2)

Emerging Pluralism?

456

(4)

Rice-Roots Democracy

460

(1)

Coercion in Reserve

461

(1)

Key Terms

462

(1)

Further Reference

462

(4)

It Only Looks Capitalist

466

(1)

Yuan and Dollars

467

(2)

A Market Economy for China?

469

(3)

A Middle Way for the Middle Kingdom?

472

(1)

Enraging the Dragon

473

(1)

China and the World

474

(2)

Key Terms

476

(1)

Further Reference

476

(2)

part VII The Third World

478

(99)

CHAPTER 33 MEXICO

482

(32)

The Impact of the Past

483

(10)

New Spain

483

(2)

Mexican Independence

485

(1)

Between Monarchy and Republic

486

(3)

The Mexican Revolution

489

(1)

The Revolution Institutionalized

489

(4)

The Key Institutions

493

(5)

The Six-Year Presidency

494

(1)

Mexico's Legislature

495

(1)

Mexico's Dominant-Party System

496

(1)

Mexican Federalism

497

(1)

Mexican Political Culture

498

(3)

Mexico's Indian Heritage

499

(1)

Imported Ideologies

500

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

501

(5)

Politics inside PRI

503

(1)

Mexican Catholicism

504

(1)

Crime and Politics

504

(2)

What Mexicans Quarrel About

506

(6)

Population and Jobs

506

(3)

The NAFTA Question

509

(1)

Drugs: A Mexican or U.S. Problem?

510

(1)

Illegal or Undocumented?

510

(1)

Modern Mexico?

511

(1)

Key Terms

512

(1)

Key Web Sites

512

(1)

Further Reference

513

(1)

CHAPTER 34 NIGERIA

514

(28)

The Impact of the Past

515

(8)

The Coming of the Europeans

516

(2)

The Scramble for Africa

518

(1)

The Colonial Interlude

519

(2)

Independence

521

(2)

The Key Institutions

523

(4)

From British to U.S. Model

524

(1)

The National Assembly

524

(1)

Nigeria's Parties

525

(2)

Nigerian Political Culture

527

(5)

Nigerian Fragmentation

527

(2)

The Igbo and Biafra

529

(2)

The Trouble with Nigeria

531

(1)

Democrats without Democracy

531

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

532

(2)

Count the Coups

532

(2)

What Nigerians Quarrel About

534

(6)

The Corruption Factor

536

(2)

Oil and Democracy

538

(2)

Key Terms

540

(1)

Key Web Sites

540

(1)

Further Reference

541

(1)

CHAPTER 35 IRAN

542

(30)

The Impact of the Past

543

(6)

The Arab Conquest

544

(2)

Western Penetration

546

(1)

The First Pahlavi

546

(2)

The Last Pahlavi

548

(1)

The Key Institutions

549

(4)

A Theocracy

549

(1)

Iran's Legislature

550

(3)

Emerging Parties?

553

(1)

An Unfree System

553

(1)

Iranian Political Culture

553

(5)

Islam as a Political Ideology

555

(1)

Democracy and Authority

556

(1)

Iranian Nationalism

557

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

558

(5)

Religion as a Political Tool

558

(1)

Moderates and Islamists in Iran

559

(3)

The Revolution Burns Out

562

(1)

What Iranians Quarrel About

563

(7)

Which Way for Iran's Economy

563

(2)

The Veiled Debate on Islam

565

(1)

What Kind of Foreign Policy?

565

(3)

Do Revolutions End Badly?

568

(2)

Key Terms

570

(1)

Key Web Sites

570

(1)

Further Reference

570

(2)

CHAPTER 36 LESSONS OF NINE COUNTRIES

572

(5)

GLOSSARY

577

(18)

PHOTO CREDITS

595

(1)

INDEX

596

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