Political Atlas of the Modern World
ISBN: 9781444335804 | 1444335804
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/4/2010
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How can we compare political systems in contemporary world politics? What measures can we use to understand the political development of countries whose histories and cultures make them so different? The Political Atlas of the Modern World is a unique reference source which addresses these questions by providing a comparative study of the political systems of all 192 countries of the world.Using quantitative data and multidimensional statistical analysis, the Atlas ranks countries according to five indices of political development: stateness ex... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Theoretical and Methodological Grounds of the Project | |
| Comparative Analysis Methods | |
| Methods of Multidimensional Statistical Analysis | |
| Overview of Precedents | |
| Indices: Rationale and Structure | |
| Stateness Index | |
| External and Internal Threats Index | |
| Index of Potential of Internatio... MORE | |
| Quality of Life Index | |
| Index of Institutional Basis of Democracy | |
| Country Ratings | |
| Countries Rated by the Stateness Index | |
| Countries Rated by the External and Internal Threats Index | |
| Countries Rated by the Index of Potential of International Influence | |
| Countries Rated by the Quality of Life Index | |
| Countries Rated by the Index of Institutional Basis of Democracy | |
| Correlations Between the Indices | |
| Correlation Between the Institutional Basis of Democracy Index and Democracy Indices of Other Projects | |
| Countries Classified by Principal Components Method and Cluster Analysis | |
| Countries Classified by the Principal Components Method | |
| Countries Classified by Cluster Analysis | |
| From Universal Comparisons to Country Profiles | |
| The United States in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| The United Kingdom in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Germany in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| France in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Japan in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| China in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| India in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Brazil in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| North Korea in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Myanmar in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Russia and Other Post-Communist States in Multidimensional Classifications | |
| Conclusion | |
| Index of Countries | |
| Index of Names | |
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Andrei Melville is Professor of Political Science at State University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow
Yuri Polunin is Chief Analyst of the “Expert” magazine and Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University, Moscow
Mikhail Ilyin is Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University, Moscow
Mikhail Mironyuk is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University and Associate Professor of Polititcal Science at State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Ivan Timofeev is Associate Professor of Political Theory at MGIMO-University, Moscow
Elena Meleshkina is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yan Vaslavskiy is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at MGIMO-University, Moscow
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