Foundations of Comparative Politics
ISBN: 9780521136792 | 0521136792
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/25/2010
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This student-friendly introduction to the key theories and concepts of comparative politics now provides even broader coverage across the democracies of the world. Easy to read and clearly structured, this edition contains new chapters and summaries to help students relate each topic to the wider issues of comparative politics.
Now with global coverage, this new edition brings key concepts, theories and methods of comparative politics to life.
Now with global coverage, this new edition brings key concepts, theories and methods of comparative politics to life.
| Introduction: why comparative government? | |
| The State: Origins and Development | |
| The development of the modern state | |
| States and democracy | |
| Democratic change and persistence | |
| The Polity: Structures and Institutions | |
| Constitutions | |
| Presidential and parliamentary government | |
| Multi-level government: international, national and sub-nationa... MORE | |
| Policy making and legislating: executives and legislatures | |
| Implementation: the public bureaucracy | |
| Citizens, Elites and Interest Mediation | |
| Political attitudes and behaviour | |
| Pressure groups and social movements | |
| The mass media | |
| Voters and elections | |
| Party government | |
| Policies and Performance | |
| Political ideologies: conservatism, liberalism, Christian democracy and socialism | |
| Decision making | |
| Defence and security | |
| Welfare | |
| The future of the democratic state | |
| Postscript: how and what to compare | |
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