Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781608716685 | 1608716686
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: CQ PRESS
Pub. Date: 7/21/2011
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Uncomfortable with a strictly thematic approach, or tired of a purely country-by-country organization for your comparative politics course? Teach the way you want to teach with this innovative hybrid book-fully accessible to students, easy to teach, and satisfying to professors who want to give students a real sense of the questions that drive research in the fi eld. Organized thematically around important concepts in comparative politics-Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why?-the book integrates a set of extended case stud... MORE
| a Framework For Understanding Comparative Politics | |
| Introduction | |
| The Big Issues | |
| Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It? | |
| Three Key Questions in Comparative Politics | |
| Plan of the Book | |
| The Modern State | |
| Characteristics of the Modern State | |
| Historical Origins of Modern States | |
| Strong,... MORE | |
| Case Studies of State Formation | |
| States and Citizens | |
| Regimes Regimes, Ideologies, and Citizens | |
| States and Identity | |
| The Debate over Identity | |
| Nations and Nationalism | |
| Ethnicity and Religion | |
| Race | |
| States and Markets | |
| The Market, Capitalism, and the State | |
| Key Economic Debates | |
| Globalization: a New World Order or Déjà Vu All Over Again? | |
| States and Markets around the World | |
| Political Systems and How They Work | |
| Governing Institutions in Democracies | |
| Institutions Institutions: Executives and Legislatures | |
| Comparing Executive-Legislative Institutions | |
| Judiciary | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| Federalism | |
| Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies | |
| Formal Institutions: The Electoral System | |
| Formal Institutions: Political Parties and Party Systems | |
| Civil Society | |
| Contexts | |
| Authoritarian Institutions | |
| Governing Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes | |
| Elections, Parties, and Civil Society in Authoritarian Regimes | |
| Regime Change | |
| The Military in Politics: Coups dâÇÖEtat | |
| Revolution | |
| Democratization | |
| Issues and Policies | |
| Globalization, Economic Sovereignty, and Development | |
| Wealthy Countries: Globalization and Economic Sovereignty | |
| Development and Globalization | |
| Welfare, Health, and the Environment When Markets Fail | |
| âÇ£WelfareâÇ : Social Policy in Comparative Perspective | |
| Health Care and Health Policy | |
| Environmental Problems and Policy | |
| Policies and Politics of Inclusion and Clashing Values | |
| The Debate over Inclusion and Group Rights | |
| Religion: Recognition, Autonomy, and the Secular State | |
| Gender: The Continuing Struggle for Equal Social Status, Representation, and Participation | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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