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Comparative Politics Today : A World View
ISBN: 9780321158963 | 0321158962
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
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"Comparative Politics Today" is the text that defined the discipline of comparative politics and continues to set the standard for the course with and the most current country study chapters available. The chapters on England, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, India, and the United States have all been thoroughly updated. As in the previous edition, theoretical chapters (Chapters 1-7) at the beginning of the book explore the "purpose of government" and provide students with a framework for understanding comparative politics. The theoretical secti... MORE
| Each chapter concludes with "Key Terms" and "Suggested Readings." | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Contributors | |
| Introduction | |
| Issues in Comparative Politics | |
| What is Politics? | |
| Governments and the State of Nature | |
| Why Governments? | |
| When Does Government Become the Problem? | |
| Political Syste... MORE | |
| States | |
| Building Community | |
| Fostering Development | |
| Securing Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties | |
| Comparing Political Systems | |
| Why We Compare | |
| How We Compare | |
| Systems: Environment and Interdependence | |
| Structures and Functions | |
| An Illustrative Comparison: Russia in 1985 and 2002 | |
| The Policy Level: Performance, Outcome and Evaluation | |
| System, Process and Policy | |
| Political Culture and Political Socialization | |
| Political Culture | |
| Mapping the Three Levels of Political Culture | |
| Political Socialization | |
| Agents of Political Socialization | |
| Trends in Contemporary Political Cultures | |
| Interest Articulation | |
| Citizen Action | |
| Interest Groups | |
| Access to the Influential | |
| Policy Perspectives on Interest Articulation | |
| Interest Group Development | |
| Interest Aggregation and Political Parties | |
| Personal Interest Aggregation | |
| Institutional Interest Aggregation | |
| Competitive Party Systems and Interest Aggregation | |
| Authoritarian Party Systems | |
| The Military and Interest Aggregation | |
| Trends in Interest Aggregation | |
| Significance of Interest Aggregation | |
| Government and Policymaking | |
| Constitution and Decision Rules | |
| Democracy and Authoritarianism | |
| Separation of Government Powers | |
| Geographic Distribution of Government Power | |
| Limitations on Government Power | |
| Checking the Top Policymakers | |
| Assemblies | |
| Political Executives | |
| The Bureaucracy | |
| Public Policy | |
| Government and What It Does | |
| Extraction | |
| Distribution | |
| Regulation | |
| Community-Building and Symbolic Policies | |
| Outcomes: Domestic Welfare | |
| Domestic Security Outcomes | |
| International Outputs and Outcomes | |
| Political Goods and Values | |
| Strategies for Producing Political Goods | |
| Trade-offs and Opportunity Costs | |
| Country Studies | |
| Politics in England | |
| Current Policy Challenges | |
| The Constraints of History | |
| The Environment of Politics | |
| The Structure of Government | |
| Political Culture and Legitimacy | |
| Political Socialization | |
| Political Participation and Recruitment | |
| Organizing Group Interests | |
| Party System and Electoral Choice | |
| Making and Delivering Government Policies | |
| Policy Outcomes and Changes in Society | |
| Politics in France | |
| Current Policy Challenges | |
| A Historical Perspective | |
| Economy and Society | |
| Constitution and Governmental Structure | |
| Political Culture | |
| Political Socialization | |
| Mass Participation and Voting | |
| Recruitment and Style of Elites | |
| Interest Groups | |
| Political Parties | |
| Policy Processes | |
| The State and Territorial Relations | |
| Performance and Prospects | |
| Politics in Germany | |
| Current Policy Challenges | |
| The Historical Legacy | |
| Following Two Paths | |
| Social Forces | |
| The Institutions and Structure of Government | |
| Remaking Political Cultures | |
| Political Learning and Political Communication | |
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