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Comparative Politics Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

by: Hauss, Charles

Comparative Politics Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

by: Hauss, Charles

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9780534567545
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Copyright: 08/03/1999
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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This comprehensive text focuses on traditional issues and concepts in comparative politics, using a unique theme: domestic responses to global challenges. The author examines the growing interdependence among strong and weak states and discusses 12 countries, including the U.S. and the European community, to help students develop their skills of comparison, synthesis and interpretation, the author organized the text by economic development.

List of Tables

List of Figures

viii

Preface

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

(34)

Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes

(18)

Three Leaders

(1)

The State: One Focus among Many

(3)

Politics and Power

(1)

The State

(1)

Types of States

(2)

Strong and Weak States

(1)

Comparative Politics

(7)

Comparison

(1)

Three Templates

(5)

Five Themes

(1)

Three Analytical Principles

(1)

Using This Book

(4)

Key Terms

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(2)

The United States

(16)

The Budgetary Train Wreck

(1)

Thinking about the United States: American Exceptionalism

(1)

Key Questions

(1)

The United States: The Basics

(1)

The Making of the American State

(2)

The American People and Politics

(3)

The American Political Culture

(1)

The American People and Politics Today

(2)

The Weak American State

(5)

The Legislative Process

(3)

The Rest of the Weak State

(2)

Public Policy

(1)

Feedback

(1)

The Bottom Line

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

PART 2 INDUSTRIALIZED DEMOCRACIES

(194)

The Industrialized Democracies

(25)

Thinking about Democracy

(4)

Key Questions

(1)

The Basics

(3)

Who They Are

(1)

The Origins of the Democratic State

(5)

The Early Democracies

(2)

The Late Democracies

(2)

Political Culture and Participation

(6)

The Civic Culture?

(1)

Political Parties, Voting, and Elections

(5)

Interest Groups

(1)

Political Protest

(1)

The Democratic State

(3)

Presidential and Parliamentary Systems

(2)

The Broader State

(1)

Public Policy

(2)

The Interventionist State

(1)

Foreign Policy

(1)

Feedback

(1)

The Worst Form of Government Except for all the Others?

(3)

Key Terms

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(2)

Great Britain

(35)

The Blair Revolution?

(1)

Thinking about Britain

(3)

Key Questions

(2)

The Basics

(1)

The Evolution of the British State

(5)

Evolution, Not Revolution

(1)

The Broad Sweep of British History

(2)

The Collectivist Consensus

(2)

Since the Collapse of the Collectivist Consensus

(1)

British Political Culture

(2)

The Civic Culture and the Collectivist Years

(1)

The Politics of Protest: Toward and Uncivic Culture?

(1)

The Civic Culture Holds

(1)

Political Participation

(10)

The Conservatives

(2)

Labour

(2)

The Liberal Democrats

(2)

Minor Parties

(1)

The British Electorate

(1)

Interest Groups

(1)

The British State: Enduring Myths and Changing Realities

(6)

The Monarchy and the Lords: Still Dignified?

(1)

Parliamentary Sovereignty: Sort of

(2)

Cabinet Government?

(1)

The Rest of the State

(1)

Labour and Constitutional Reform

(1)

Public Policy: The Thatcher and Blair Revolutions

(5)

The Retreat from the Commanding Heights

(2)

Blair and the Third Way

(1)

Foreign Policy

(3)

Feedback

(3)

Key Terms

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(2)

France

(37)

The Socialists Win Again

(1)

Thinking about France

(2)

Key Questions

(1)

The Basics

(1)

The Evolution of the French State: Centuries of Turmoil

100

(5)

Transformation and Division

100

(1)

Traditional Republican Politics: A Vicious Circle

101

(2)

The Fourth Republic

103

(1)

De Gaulle and the Fifth Republlic

104

(1)

Political Culture: From Alienation to Consensus

105

(4)

Taming Political Protest

106

(2)

New Division

108

(1)

Political Participation

109

(7)

Renewing the Party System

110

(4)

Why These Changes Happened: The French Electoral System

114

(1)

Uncertainties at Century's End

115

(1)

Interest Groups

115

(1)

The French State

116

(7)

A New Constitution for a New State

116

(4)

The Intergrated Elite

120

(2)

Local Government

122

(1)

The Courts

123

(1)

Public Policy: The Pursuit of Grandeur

123

(7)

Economic Policy

123

(3)

Foreign Policy

126

(4)

Feedback

130

(1)

Conclusion

131

(2)

Key Terms

132

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

132

(1)

Further Reading

132

(1)

Germany

133

(35)

The End of an Era

134

(1)

Thinking about Germany

135

(1)

The Basics

135

(1)

Key Questions

136

(1)

The Evolution of the German State: The German Questions

136

(9)

Unification and the Kaiser's Reich

137

(2)

Weimar and the Rise of Hitler

139

(1)

The Third Reich

140

(2)

Occupation and the Two Germanys

142

(1)

Building a Democratic Germany

143

(2)

Creating a Democratic Political Culture

145

(2)

Political Participation

147

(7)

Parties and the Electoral Process

147

(2)

The Christian Democrats

149

(1)

The Social Democrats

150

(2)

The Free Democrats

152

(1)

The Greens

152

(1)

The Party of Democratic Socialism

153

(1)

The Far Right

153

(1)

Interest Groups

154

(1)

The German State: A Smoothly Functioning Democracy

154

(6)

Chancellor Democracy

154

(1)

The Bundestag

155

(1)

The Bundesrat

156

(1)

The Federal System

157

(1)

The Civil Service

157

(1)

The Constitutional Court

158

(1)

Corporatism

158

(2)

Public Policy: Modell Deutschland

160

(5)

The Social Market Economy

161

(1)

Unification

162

(3)

Feedback

165

(3)

Key Terms

166

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

167

(1)

Further Reading

167

(1)

The European Union

168

(22)

Thinking about the EU

169

(2)

What's in a Name?

169

(1)

Who's in? Who's Out?

170

(1)

Three Pillars

170

(1)

Key Questions

170

(1)

The Evolution of the EU

171

(5)

Not Such a New Idea

171

(2)

Creating the Common Market

173

(3)

Political Culture and Participation in the EU

176

(1)

The European State?

177

(7)

The Commission

177

(2)

The Council

179

(1)

The European Court of Justice

180

(1)

The European Parliament

181

(1)

The Complexities of EU Decision Making

181

(1)

Broadening and Deepening

182

(1)

The EU and National Sovereignty

183

(1)

Public Policy in the EU

184

(3)

The Internal Market

184

(2)

The CAP

186

(1)

Monetary Union

186

(1)

Political Union

187

(1)

Feedback and the Future of the EU

187

(1)

A Late-Breaking Conclusion

188

(2)

Key Terms

189

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

189

(1)

Further Reading

189

(1)

Japan

190

(39)

Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est La Meme Chose?

191

(1)

Thinking about Japan

192

(5)

The Basics

192

(3)

Political Continuity?

195

(1)

Key Questions

196

(1)

The Evolution of Japanese Politics

197

(8)

Before the West Arrived

197

(1)

The Meiji Restoration and the Rise of Imperial Japan

198

(5)

Occupation and the Contemporary Japanese State

203

(2)

Political Culture: Groupism v. Individualism

205

(3)

Political Participation and Elections: The End of the LDP Era?

208

(6)

Why the LDP Kept Winning: Money Politics, Factionalism, and the Electoral System

208

(4)

The Other Parties

212

(2)

The LDP Again: Victory by Default?

214

(1)

The Japanese State: The Iron Triangle

214

(5)

Constitutional Basics

214

(1)

The LDP in Power

215

(2)

The Iron Triangle

217

(2)

Public Policy: Japan as Number One?

219

(5)

Domestic Policy

219

(4)

Foreign Policy

223

(1)

Feedback

224

(1)

Conclusion

225

(4)

Key Terms

226

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

226

(1)

Further Reading

227

(2)

PART 3 THE CRISIS OF COMMUNISM

229

(98)

Current and Former Communist Regimes

230

(25)

Thinking about the Current and Former Communist World

233

(3)

The Unthinkable

233

(1)

What Is/Was the Communist World?

233

(1)

Common Origins

234

(1)

The Transition: Key Questions

235

(1)

The Evolution of Communist Regimes

236

(6)

Socialism

236

(1)

Marxism

236

(3)

Marxism-Leninism

239

(1)

Stalinism

239

(1)

Expansion

240

(1)

De-Stalinization

241

(1)

The Marxist-Leninist State

242

(2)

The Party State

242

(1)

The Graying of Communism

243

(1)

The Crisis of Communism: Suicide by Public Policy

244

(5)

Reform: Too Little, Too Late

244

(2)

1989: The Year That Changed the World

246

(2)

The Remnants of the Communist World

248

(1)

Transitions

249

(4)

Feedback

253

(2)

Key Terms

254

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

254

(1)

Further Reading

254

(1)

Russia

255

(37)

The Health of the President and the Presidency

256

(1)

Thinking about Russia

257

(2)

Diversity

257

(1)

Poverty

257

(1)

The Environment

258

(1)

Key Questions

258

(1)

The Evolution of the Russian State

259

(8)

The Broad Sweep of Russian History

259

(1)

The Wrong Revolution?

260

(2)

Stalin, Terror, and the Modernization of the Soviet Union

262

(3)

Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the Politics of Decline

265

(2)

The Soviet State and Its Collapse: The Gorbachev Years

267

(8)

The Party State

267

(1)

Reform

268

(4)

Crisis and Collapse

272

(1)

Birth Pangs

273

(2)

Political Culture and Participation

275

(6)

Political Culture

275

(1)

Parties and Elections

276

(5)

The Russian State

281

(4)

A Presidential Republic

281

(1)

Parliament

281

(1)

The Bureaucracy

282

(1)

The Judiciary

282

(1)

Federalism

283

(1)

The Military

284

(1)

Behind the Scenes

285

(1)

Public Policy

285

(3)

The Economy

285

(2)

Foreign Policy

287

(1)

Feedback

288

(1)

Conclusion: The Succession

289

(3)

Key Terms

290

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

290

(1)

Further Reading

290

(2)

China

292

(35)

The Succession

293

(1)

Thinking about China

294

(2)

The Basics

294

(1)

Key Questions

295

(1)

The Evolution of the Chinese State

296

(10)

The Broad Sweep of Chinese History

296

(1)

Failed Revolution

297

(1)

China Stands Up

298

(3)

Factionalism

301

(5)

Factionalism since Mao's Death

306

(1)

Political Culture and Participation

306

(8)

A Blank Slate? Cultural Revolution?

307

(3)

Participation from the Top Down

310

(1)

Change in the Countryside

311

(1)

Dissent and Democratization

311

(3)

The Party State

314

(3)

Public Policy: Perestroika without Glasnost

317

(6)

Economic Reform

317

(4)

Foreign Policy

321

(2)

Feedback

323

(1)

Kardan or Communism

323

(4)

Key Terms

325

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

326

(1)

Further Reading

326

(1)

PART 4 THE THIRD WORLD

327

(178)

The Third World

328

(27)

Buildings and Politics

329

(1)

Thinking about the Third World

330

(6)

Why Study the Third World?

330

(1)

The Basics

331

(4)

Key Questions

335

(1)

The Evolution of Politics in the Third World

336

(2)

Imperialism and Its Legacy

336

(1)

Independence

337

(1)

Postcolonial Problems

338

(1)

Political Culture in the Third World

338

(2)

Identity

338

(1)

Division

339

(1)

Lack of Legitimacy

340

(1)

Political Participation

340

(2)

Weak States

342

(3)

Types of States

342

(2)

States and Power

344

(1)

Public Policy: The Myths and Realities of Development

345

(6)

Import Substitution

346

(1)

Structural Adjustment

347

(1)

Foreign Aid

348

(2)

The Debt Trap

350

(1)

Microcredit

350

(1)

Feedback

351

(1)

Democratization

352

(3)

Key Terms

353

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

354

(1)

Further Reading

354

(1)

India

355

(38)

Thinking about India

356

(4)

The Basics

356

(3)

Key Questions

359

(1)

The Evolution of Indian Politics

360

(9)

The Weight of History

360

(1)

British Colonialism

361

(2)

The Struggle for Independence

363

(2)

The New Republic

365

(1)

Centralization and Fragmentation

366

(2)

Coalition Politics

368

(1)

Poltical Culture

369

(3)

Political Culture in the New India

370

(1)

Challenges to Culture and Country

370

(2)

Political Participation

372

(8)

Beyond the Congress System

372

(2)

The BJP

374

(2)

The Other Parties

376

(1)

The Conduct of Elections in India

377

(1)

Interest Groups

378

(2)

The Indian State

380

(3)

The British Legacy

380

(1)

Parliament

380

(1)

The Bureaucracy

381

(1)

Federalism

381

(2)

Pragmatism over Principle?

383

(1)

Public Policy

383

(7)

Confronting Communal Violence

383

(3)

The Economy

386

(4)

Feedback

390

(1)

Democracy in India and the Third World

390

(3)

Key Terms

391

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

392

(1)

Further Reading

392

(1)

Iraq

393

(40)

An Election in Name Only?

394

(1)

Thinking about Iraq

395

(3)

Why Study Iraq?

395

(1)

The Politics of Fear

396

(1)

Economic Potential

397

(1)

Diversity

397

(1)

Key Questions

398

(1)

The Evolution of the Iraqi State

398

(2)

Where Does Iraq Come From?

399

(1)

Iraq's Difficult Beginnings

399

(1)

Independent Iraq

400

(1)

Iraqi Political Culture and Participation

400

(12)

The Kurdish Question

401

(1)

Shiite v. Sunni

402

(3)

Cultural Pluralism

405

(1)

Parochial Loyalties

406

(1)

Secrecy, Introversion, and the Distrust of Outsiders

407

(1)

The Tradition of Political Violence

408

(2)

The Political Culture of the Baath Elite

410

(2)

Minimal Opposition

412

(1)

The Iraqi State

412

(7)

A Primitive Cult of Personality

412

(2)

The Formal Structure of Government

414

(4)

The Informal Chain of Command: Saddam Hussein and His Kin

418

(1)

Public Policy

419

(11)

Subordinating Policy to Power

419

(4)

Saddam's Wars: Iraq's Rise and Demise as a Regional Power

423

(7)

Feedback

430

(1)

Conclusion: Saddam Hussein and the Future of Iraq

430

(3)

Key Terms

431

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

431

(1)

Further Reading

432

(1)

South Africa

433

(35)

The Anatomy of a Miracle

434

(1)

Thinking about South Africa

434

(3)

Two Nations

434

(2)

Apartheid and Its Legacy

436

(1)

Key Questions

437

(1)

The Apartheid State

437

(9)

The Evolution of the Apartheid State

437

(3)

Political Culture and Participation

440

(2)

The State

442

(2)

Public Policy

444

(2)

The New South Africa

446

(19)

Tomorrow Is Another Country

446

(7)

The Task Ahead

453

(1)

Political Culture

454

(1)

Political Participation

455

(4)

The New State

459

(2)

Public Policy

461

(4)

Feedback

465

(1)

South Africa: In Peril or a Role Model?

465

(3)

Key Terms

466

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

467

(1)

Further Reading

467

(1)

Mexico

468

(37)

A Country in Crisis

469

(1)

Thinking about Mexico

469

(4)

The Basics

470

(1)

Key Questions

471

(1)

Big Brother IS Watching

472

(1)

The Evolution of Mexican Politics

473

(7)

Before the Revolution

473

(1)

Independence

473

(2)

The Revolution

475

(1)

Institutionalizing the Revolution

476

(1)

Cardenas and His Legacy

477

(1)

An Institutional Revolutionary Party

478

(2)

Political Culture

480

(2)

Political Participation in Mexico

482

(5)

The PRI and Its Hold on Power

483

(1)

Corporatism

484

(1)

The Opposition

485

(1)

The People, the PRI, and Civil Society

486

(1)

The Mexican State

487

(5)

The End of an Era?

487

(1)

The Party State and Presidential Domination

487

(2)

The Bureaucracy and the Judiciary

489

(1)

Congress and the Legislative Process

490

(1)

The Federal System

491

(1)

The Military

491

(1)

Corporatism and Corruption

491

(1)

Public Policy

492

(10)

Debt and Development

492

(5)

U.S.-Mexican Relations

497

(5)

Feedback

502

(1)

Mexico and the Third World

502

(3)

Key Terms

503

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

503

(1)

Further Reading

503

(2)

PART 5 TOWARD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

505

(15)

Global Challenges and Domestic Responses

506

(14)

Our Shrinking Planet

507

(5)

The Growing Cost of Violence and War

508

(1)

Abusing the Environment

509

(2)

The Perilous Global Economy

511

(1)

Lives without Dignity

512

(1)

The Wheel of Fortune

512

(1)

Constraints on States and Citizens

513

(1)

Everything Has Changed Save the Way We Think

514

(4)

Student and Citizen

518

(2)

Key Terms

518

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises

518

(1)

Further Reading

519

(1)

Glossary

520

(13)

Endontes

533

(3)

Name Index

536

(5)

Subject Index

541

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