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Comparative Politics : A Theoretical Framework
ISBN: 9780673522825 | 0673522822
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 8/1/1993
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Almond, Gabriel A.; Powell, Jr., G. Bingham; Strom, Kaare; Dalton, Russell J.; Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Framework, 3rd Edition*\ In this new edition, the rich theoretical framework pioneered by Gabriel Almond and G. Bingham Powell has been streamlined by new co-editors Kaare Strom and Russell Dalton and features a shift toward exploring the purpose of government. Retained and enriched, the three-part analytic framework examining system, process, and policy offers readers a coherent and accessible means to exploring how different political systems are formed, maintained, and changed. For those interested in comparative politics.
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | |
| Issues in Comparative Politics | p. 1 |
| What Is Politics? | p. 1 |
| Governments and the State of Nature | p. 3 |
| Why Governments? | p. 5 |
| When Does Government Become the Problem? | p. 9 |
| Political Systems | p. 16 |
| States | p. 17 |
| Building Community | p. 21 |
| Fostering Development | ... MORE |
| Securing Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties | p. 34 |
| Key Terms | p. 37 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 37 |
| Notes | p. 38 |
| Comparing Political Systems | |
| Why We Compare | p. 39 |
| How We Compare | p. 41 |
| Systems: Structure and Function | p. 43 |
| Structures and Functions | p. 46 |
| An Illustrative Comparison: Russia in 1985 and 1998 | p. 50 |
| The Policy Level: Performance, Outcome, and Evaluation | p. 53 |
| Key Terms | p. 54 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 55 |
| Notes | p. 55 |
| System, Process, and Policy | |
| Political Culture and Political Socialization | p. 56 |
| Political Culture | p. 56 |
| Mapping the Three Levels of Political Culture | p. 57 |
| Political Socialization | p. 65 |
| Agents of Political Socialization | p. 66 |
| Trends in Contemporary Political Cultures | p. 72 |
| Key Terms | p. 75 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 75 |
| Notes | p. 76 |
| Interest Articulation | p. 78 |
| Citizen Action | p. 78 |
| Interest Groups | p. 83 |
| Access to the Influential | p. 90 |
| Policy Perspectives on Interest Articulation | p. 96 |
| Interest Group Development | p. 96 |
| Key Terms | p. 99 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 100 |
| Notes | p. 100 |
| Interest Aggregation and Political Parties | p. 103 |
| Personal Interest Aggregation | p. 104 |
| Institutional Interest Aggregation | p. 104 |
| Competitive Party Systems and Interest Aggregation | p. 106 |
| Authoritarian Party Systems | p. 116 |
| The Military and Interest Aggregation | p. 119 |
| Trends in Interest Aggregation | p. 120 |
| Significance of Interest Aggregation | p. 122 |
| Key Terms | p. 124 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 124 |
| Notes | p. 125 |
| Government and Policymaking | p. 128 |
| Constitutions and Decision Rules | p. 128 |
| Democracy and Authoritarianism | p. 131 |
| Geographic Distribution of Government Power | p. 132 |
| Separation of Government Powers | p. 134 |
| Limitations on Government Powers | p. 138 |
| Assemblies | p. 141 |
| Political Executives | p. 144 |
| The Bureaucracy | p. 150 |
| Elite Recruitment | p. 154 |
| Control of Elites | p. 160 |
| Key Terms | p. 163 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 164 |
| Notes | p. 164 |
| Public Policy | p. 166 |
| Government and What It Does | p. 166 |
| Extraction | p. 168 |
| Distribution | p. 171 |
| Regulation | p. 175 |
| Community-Building and Symbolic Policies | p. 179 |
| Outcomes: Domestic Welfare | p. 180 |
| Domestic Security Outcomes | p. 186 |
| International Outputs and Outcomes | p. 188 |
| Political Goods and Values | p. 190 |
| Strategies for Producing Political Goods | p. 193 |
| Trade-Offs and Opportunity Costs | p. 198 |
| Key Terms | p. 199 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 200 |
| Notes | p. 200 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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