Nations and Government : Comparative Politics in Regional Perspective
ISBN: 9780495915287 | 0495915289
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 6/22/2010
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With a unique regional organization and conceptual approach, NATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE helps students understand national governments more fully by putting them into a larger regional context. This text documents the changes brought on by the post-Soviet era and the age of globalization, while charting the progress of emerging markets and democracies around the world. This new edition looks closely at the impact of the global recession, providing up-to-date analysis of national policy responses. It also details the continuing rise of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, with case-study coverage of each country.
| Introduction | |
| Comparative Politics and the Regional Perspective | |
| Models, Regimes, and Regions | |
| Western Europe | |
| The Western Political Heritage | |
| The Triumph of Parliaments and Pluralism | |
| Russia and Slavic Europe | |
| Russia and Slavic Europe | |
| Russia: Democracy or Dictatorship | |
| Asia | |
| Civiliz... MORE | |
| Continuity and Change | |
| Latin America | |
| The Spanish Conquest and Its Aftermath | |
| Caudillos, Coups, and Constitutions | |
| The Middle East | |
| Politics and Religion | |
| Monarchies, Dictatorships, and a Garrison State | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| The Legacy of Colonialism | |
| The Long Road to Recovery | |
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