Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

by: Roskin, Michael

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

by: Roskin, Michael

ISBN 13:
9780136252450
ISBN 10:
0136252451
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/01/1997
Publisher: Pearson
Newer Edition

Rent

Sorry, this item is currently unavailable.

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

Appropriate for undergraduate Political Science courses including Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to European Politics, and Introduction to Politics. Introduces the concepts and vocabulary of Comparative Politics through a country-by-country analysis and recent case studies. By demonstrating that political life is universal and comparable, the text also proves that no country is really alien, but rather that all countries are understandable.

A NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS

xxi

CHAPTER 1 WHAT TO LOOK FOR

(18)

Looking for Quarrels

(1)

The Structure of This Book

(1)

The Impact of the Past

(3)

The Five Crises of Nation Building

(1)

The Key Institutions

(2)

Left, Right, and Center

(1)

What about Names and Dates?

(1)

Political Attitudes

(4)

Parliamentary versus Presidential Systems

(1)

The Civic Culture Study

(1)

What Is "Ideology"?

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

(3)

The Politics of Social Cleavages

(1)

How Important Is the European Union?

(1)

What People Quarrel About

(1)

The Importance of Being Comparative

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(2)

PART I GREAT BRITAIN

(64)

CHAPTER 2 BRITAIN: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

(12)

The United Kingdom

(1)

Britain's French Legacy

(1)

Magna Carta

(1)

The Common Law

(1)

The Rise of Parliament

(1)

Henry VIII

(1)

Parliament versus King

(1)

Premature Democrats

(1)

Acton's Dictum

(1)

Cromwell's Commonwealth

(1)

The "Glorious Revolution"

(1)

The Rise of the Prime Minister

(1)

The Democratization of Parliament

(2)

Conservative Geniuses: Burke and Disraeli

(1)

The Rise of the Welfare State

(2)

Comparing: The Genesis of Two Welfare States

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 3 BRITAIN: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

(14)

The Monarch

(2)

Comparing: The Last Political Monarch

(1)

The Cabinet

(3)

The Queen Chooses a New Prime Minister

(2)

The Prime Minister

(1)

Tony Blair: A British Clinton?

(1)

The Commons

(2)

The Deceptive No. 10 Downing Street

(1)

How the Commons Works

(3)

How Much Are Parliamentarians Paid?

(2)

What to Do with Lords?

(1)

The Parties

(2)

Two-Party Systems: Variations on a British Theme

(2)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 4 BRITISH POLITICAL ATTITUDES

(11)

"Public" Schools

(1)

What to Do with "Public" Schools?

(1)

"Oxbridge"

(1)

Class and Voting

(1)

The Deferential British?

(1)

The 1997 Elections: Class Plus Region

(1)

British Civility

(1)

Pragmatism

(2)

Football Hooliganism

(1)

The Shape of the British Electorate

(1)

Traditions and Symbols

(1)

Legitimacy and Authority

(1)

The Ulster Ulcer

(1)

The IRA: Ballots and Bullets

(1)

A Changing Political Culture

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 5 BRITAIN: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

(12)

1997: Finally, Labour

(1)

National and Local Party

(1)

Politics within the Parties

(3)

The Struggle of the Liberal Democrats

(1)

Saving Labour from the Unions

(1)

The "Poll Tax" Issue

(1)

Parties and Interest Groups

(1)

The Parties Face Each Other

(1)

The Profumo Scandal

(1)

The Cabinet and the Civil Servants

(2)

The Utility of Dignity

(1)

Treasury: The Real Power

(1)

The Civil Service and Interest Groups

(1)

What about Democracy?

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 6 WHAT BRITONS QUARREL ABOUT

(14)

The "British Disease"

(1)

"Pluralistic Stagnation"

(1)

The Thatcher Cure

(4)

The Flip Side of the Welfare State

(1)

Comparing: The Productivity Race

(1)

Comparing: Thatchernomics and Reaganomics

(1)

The Trouble with National Health

(3)

Scottish and Welsh Nationalism

(3)

What to Do with Northern Ireland?

(1)

British Racism

(1)

Britain and Europe

(2)

Britain's Education Dilemma

(1)

Great Britain or Little England?

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(2)

PART II FRANCE

(70)

CHAPTER 7 FRANCE: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

(12)

The Roman Influence

(1)

The Rise of French Absolutism

(1)

Great French Expressions: "Paris Is Worth a Mass"

(1)

Louis XIV: The High Point of Absolutism

(1)

Why the French Revolution?

(2)

Great French Expressions: "L'etat, c'est moi"

(1)

Great French Expressions: "Let Them Eat Cake"

(1)

Three French Geniuses: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau

(1)

From Freedom to Tyranny

(2)

A Tale of Two Flags

(1)

The Original Chauvinist

(1)

The Bourbon Restoration

(2)

A Theory of Revolution

(1)

Great French Expressions: "They Learned Nothing and They Forgot Nothing"

(1)

The Third Republic

(1)

Vichy: France Splits Again

(1)

The Dreyfus Affair

(1)

The Fourth Republic

(1)

Vocabulary Building

(1)

Further Reference

(1)

CHAPTER 8 FRANCE: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

(15)

A Semipresidential System

(4)

Parliamentary versus Presidential Systems

(2)

Great French Expressions: Cohabitation

(1)

The Presidential Election of 1995

100

(1)

Premier and Cabinet

100

(3)

A Gaullist Technocrat as President

101

(2)

Great French Expressions: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"

103

(1)

The National Assembly

103

(2)

Comparing: The Israeli Parliamentary System

104

(1)

A Senate That Fights Back

105

(1)

The Party System

105

(3)

The Parliamentary Elections of 1997

106

(2)

Comparing: A French Supreme Court?

108

(1)

A Decentralized Unitary System

108

(1)

Vocabulary Building

109

(1)

Further Reference

109

(2)

CHAPTER 9 FRENCH POLITICAL ATTITUDES

111

(15)

How to Celebrate a 200-Year-Old Revolution

112

(1)

Historical Roots of French Attitudes

112

(1)

A Climate of Mistrust

113

(1)

"La Marseillaise"

113

(1)

Great French Expressions: "L'enfer, c'est les autres"

114

(1)

The Nasty Split

114

(2)

French and American Party Identification

115

(1)

Comparing: The Instability of Split Societies

116

(1)

School for Grinds

116

(2)

French Elections: The Persistence of Religion

117

(1)

French Elections: The Persistence of Region

118

(1)

The "Great Schools"

118

(2)

How Would You Do on the "Bac"?

119

(1)

Rule of the Enarchs

120

(1)

The Fear of "Face to Face"

120

(1)

Freedom or Authority?

121

(1)

Comparing: French and American Press Conferences

121

(1)

Social Class

122

(1)

The Great Calming Down

122

(3)

Great French Expressions: "The Heart Is on the Left, but the Billfold Is on the Right"

123

(1)

The French Turn Centrist

124

(1)

Vocabulary Building

125

(1)

Further Reference

125

(1)

CHAPTER 10 FRANCE: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

126

(15)

The Emerging Party System

127

(1)

The Socialists and the Communists

127

(2)

The French Left: Smother Thy Brother

128

(1)

The Gaullists and Republicans

129

(2)

Mitterrand Skunks Chirac

130

(1)

Balladur Upstages Mitterrand

131

(1)

The Stalemate Cycle

131

(2)

The Events of May 1968

132

(1)

Referendum Madness

133

(2)

Boring! Boring! No New Faces

135

(1)

Fragmented Labor Unions

135

(2)

Business and the Bureaucracy

136

(1)

"Putting on the Slippers"

137

(1)

The Eternal Bureaucracy

137

(2)

The Real Power: The Inspection

138

(1)

Government by Bureaucracy

139

(1)

Vocabulary Building

139

(1)

Further Reference

140

(1)

CHAPTER 11 WHAT THE FRENCH QUARREL ABOUT

141

(12)

Nukes, French Style

142

(1)

Big Guys versus Little Guys

142

(2)

The Poujadists: A Classic Flash Party

143

(1)

The Nationalization Question

144

(2)

The Concorde: A Prestigious Dinosaur

145

(1)

The Unemployment Horror

146

(2)

Comparing: Europe Adopts U.S.-Style Conservatism

146

(1)

Is There a VAT in Your Future?

147

(1)

France's Racial Problem

148

(1)

The National Front: The Angry Party

149

(1)

France's Education Problems

149

(1)

The Covering Up of Things Past

150

(1)

Comparing: How U.S. and French Youth Handle the School Problem

150

(1)

Vocabulary Building

151

(1)

Further Reference

151

(2)

PART III GERMANY

153

(72)

CHAPTER 12 GERMANY: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

154

(16)

Who Are the Germans?

154

(1)

The Fragmented Nation

155

(3)

The Changing Shape of Germany

156

(2)

Impressive German Words: Obrigkeit

158

(1)

The Rise of Prussia

158

(1)

German Nationalism

159

(1)

Impressive German Words: Machtstaat

Impressive German Words: Volksgeist

160

(1)

The Second Reich

160

(2)

Bismarck's Dubious Legacy

161

(1)

Impressive German Words: Kulturkampf

162

(1)

The Catastrophe: World War I

162

(1)

Republic without Democrats

163

(3)

Impressive German Words: Dolchstoss

163

(1)

The Horrors of Polarized Pluralism

164

(1)

Impressive German Words: Gleichschaltung

165

(1)

Impressive German Words: Lebensraum

166

(1)

The Third Reich

166

(2)

Might Have Been: The Plot to Kill Hitler

167

(1)

Another Tale of Two Flags

168

(1)

The Occupation

168

(1)

Vocabulary Building

169

(1)

Further Reference

169

(1)

CHAPTER 13 GERMANY: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

170

(14)

The President

170

(1)

Impressive German Words: Bundesrepublik

171

(1)

The Chancellor

171

(1)

Impressive German Words: Grundgesetz

172

(1)

The Cabinet

172

(3)

Der Alte: Adenauer

173

(1)

Helmut Kohl: The Underestimated Chancellor

174

(1)

The Bundestag

175

(2)

The Grand Coalition: A Dangerous Experiment

175

(2)

The Constitutional Court

177

(1)

The Bundesrat: A Useful Upper House

178

(1)

The Parties

178

(2)

Impressive German Words: Regierungsfahig

179

(1)

Comparing: Germany's Electoral System: An Export Product

180

(1)

A Split Electoral System

180

(3)

"You Have Two Votes": A German Ballot

181

(1)

1994: A Modified PR System in Action

182

(1)

Vocabulary Building

183

(1)

Further Reference

183

(1)

CHAPTER 14 GERMAN POLITICAL ATTITUDES

184

(12)

The Moral Vacuum

185

(1)

Impressive German Words: Gehorsamkeit

185

(1)

Impressive German Words: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung

186

(1)

Forgetting the Past

186

(2)

The Rise of "Postmaterialism"

187

(1)

A German "Generation X"?

188

(1)

The Generation Gap

188

(1)

A New German Democracy

189

(1)

Germany's Nationalistic "New Right"

190

(1)

The Disorienting Unification

190

(2)

Willy Brandt: A German Mr. Clean

191

(1)

The End of Shell Shock

192

(1)

Impressive German Words: Politikverdrossenheit

193

(1)

The German Political Elite

193

(1)

The German Split Personality

194

(1)

Impressive German Words: Sehnsucht and Streben

194

(1)

Vocabulary Building

195

(1)

Further Reference

195

(1)

CHAPTER 15 GERMANY: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

196

(13)

More Complex, Less Stable

196

(1)

Parties and the Electorate

196

(4)

Germany's Possible Coalitions

197

(1)

The Shape of the German Electorate

198

(1)

Unhappy on the Left: The Jusos

199

(1)

The Chancellor and the Electorate

200

(1)

Thunder on the Right: CSU

200

(1)

German Dealignment?

201

(1)

Impressive German Words: Weltanschauung

201

(1)

German Dealignment?

201

(2)

The "Catchall" Party

202

(1)

Movable Mayors

203

(1)

The Bundestag and the Citizen

203

(1)

The Union-Party Linkup

204

(2)

Boring! Boring! Politics without Passion

204

(1)

Impressive German Words: Spitzenverband

205

(1)

The Lander and Berlin

206

(1)

German Voting Patterns

207

(1)

Vocabulary Building

208

(1)

Further Reference

208

(1)

CHAPTER 16 WHAT GERMANS QUARREL ABOUT

209

(16)

The End of the Miracle

209

(3)

Impressive German Words: Wirtschaftswunder

210

(1)

Impressive German Words: Sozialmarkt

210

(1)

Impressive German Words: Mitbestimmung

211

(1)

Comparing: Who Wins the Manufacturing Race?

212

(1)

How to Merge Two Economies

212

(5)

Impressive German Words: Ladenschlussgezetz

213

(1)

Could Unification Have Come Gradually?

214

(2)

How to Handle the Euro?

216

(1)

How Much Welfare?

217

(1)

Comparing: Running Out of Germans

217

(1)

The Flood of Foreigners

218

(3)

Impressive German Words: Gastarbeiter

219

(1)

The Stasi Stain

220

(1)

Impressive German Words: Waldsterben

221

(1)

A Fourth Reich?

221

(2)

Vocabulary Building

223

(1)

Further Reference

223

(2)

PART IV RUSSIA

225

(66)

CHAPTER 17 RUSSIA: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

226

(17)

The Slavic People

226

(2)

Momorable Russian Slogans: "Moscow Is the Third Rome"

227

(1)

Russian Autocracy

228

(1)

Absolutism or Anarchy?

228

(1)

State Plus Church: "Caesaropapism"

229

(1)

Forced Modernization

229

(1)

Westernizers and Slavophiles

230

(1)

From Frustration to Revolution

230

(1)

Premature Democrats: The Decembrists

231

(1)

Marxism Comes to Russia

231

(3)

A Russian Genius: Lenin

232

(1)

One City, Three Names

233

(1)

Curtain Raiser: The 1905 Revolution

234

(1)

Memorable Russian Slogans: "Bread, Land, Peace"

234

(1)

Kerensky: Nice Guys Lose

235

(1)

World War I and Collapse

235

(2)

Memorable Russian Slogans: "All Power to the Soviets"

236

(1)

Why the October Revolution Was in November

237

(1)

The Revolution and Civil War

237

(1)

Memorable Russian Slogans: "He Who Does Not Work, Neither Shall He Eat"

238

(1)

War Communism and NEP

238

(4)

Yet Another Tale of Two Flags

239

(1)

Stalin: "One Death Is a Tragedy; a Million Is a Statistic"

240

(2)

Vocabulary Building

242

(1)

Further Reference

242

(1)

CHAPTER 18 RUSSIA: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

243

(13)

The Stalin System

243

(4)

Memorable Russian Slogans: "The Communist Party Is Not a Party Like Other Parties"

244

(1)

Government in a Fortress

245

(2)

The New System

247

(7)

The KGB

247

(1)

1991: The Coup That Failed

248

(2)

Yeltsin: A Cautious Reformer

250

(1)

1993: The Second Coup That Failed

251

(1)

Russia's 1996 Presidential Elections

252

(1)

The Russian Elections of 1995: A Fragmented Party System

253

(1)

The Persistence of Pattern

254

(1)

The Once and Future KGB

254

(1)

Vocabulary Building

255

(1)

Further Reference

255

(1)

CHAPTER 19 RUSSIAN POLITICAL ATTITUDES

256

(11)

The Russian Difference

256

(3)

Huntington's "Civilizational" Divide in Europe

257

(1)

Solzhenitsyn: Russian Mysticism

258

(1)

The Mask of Legitimacy

259

(1)

The Illusion of Ideology

259

(2)

How to Build a Civil Society: The Philosophical Gap

260

(1)

The Rediscovery of Civil Society

261

(1)

How to Build a Civil Society: The Moral Gap

262

(1)

Natural Egalitarians?

262

(1)

Russian Racism

263

(1)

How to Build a Civil Society: The Economic Gap

264

(1)

Can a Democratic Political Culture Be Learned?

264

(2)

How to Build a Civil Society: The Legal Gap

265

(1)

Vocabulary Building

266

(1)

Further Reference

266

(1)

CHAPTER 20 RUSSIA: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

267

(11)

Reformers versus Conservatives

267

(3)

Khrushchev: The First Reformer

268

(2)

Totalitarian versus Authoritarian

270

(1)

President versus Parliament

270

(4)

Gorbachev: "Life Punishes Those Who Delay"

271

(1)

Centrist Reformer: Prime Minister Chernomyrdin

272

(1)

Comparing: The Timing of Reforms

273

(1)

The Mafia

274

(1)

Remembering the Marshal

274

(1)

The Army

275

(2)

The Next Russian Strongman? Ex-General Lebed

276

(1)

Vocabulary Building

277

(1)

Further Reference

277

(1)

CHAPTER 21 WHAT RUSSIANS QUARREL ABOUT

278

(13)

Why the Soviet Union Collapsed

278

(1)

How to Reform?

279

(1)

Economic Goods versus Economic Bads

279

(1)

The Pace and Pain of Economic Reform

280

(3)

Why Did We Fail to Anticipate?

281

(1)

Lacking Facts, They Theorized

282

(1)

Recover the Lost Republics?

283

(4)

The Terminology of Economic Reform

284

(1)

The Horror of Chechnya

285

(1)

Comparing: Yugoslavia: A Miniature Soviet Union?

286

(1)

A Middle Way for Socialism?

287

(1)

The Horror of Russian Health

287

(1)

Comparing: Scandinavian-Type Socialism for the Soviet Union?

288

(1)

Which Way Russia?

288

(1)

Vocabulary Building

289

(1)

Further Reference

289

(2)

PART V JAPAN

291

(59)

CHAPTER 22 JAPAN: THE IMPACT OF THE PAST

292

(10)

Japanese Feudalism

293

(1)

Comparing: The Uniqueness Trap

293

(1)

Comparing: Japan and Britain

294

(1)

The European Jolt

294

(1)

The Forced Entry

295

(1)

The 1868 Meiji Restoration

296

(1)

The Japanese Model of Industrialization?

297

(1)

The Path to War

297

(1)

The Great Pacific War

298

(2)

The United States and Japan: Collision in the Pacific

299

(1)

Japanese Understatement: "The War Has Not Gone So Well"

300

(1)

Up from the Ashes

300

(1)

Vocabulary Building

301

(1)

Further Reference

301

(1)

CHAPTER 23 JAPAN: THE KEY INSTITUTIONS

302

(12)

The Monarchy

302

(1)

The Diet

302

(3)

Comparing: Deference to Monarchs

303

(1)

A Woman Speaker for Japan's Diet

304

(1)

Prime Minister

305

(2)

Fill in the Blanks: A Generic Prime Minister

307

(1)

Parties

307

(2)

Comparing: The LDP and Italy's DC

308

(1)

Japan's Electoral System

309

(2)

The 1996 Elections: A New Hybrid System in Action

310

(1)

The Ministries

311

(1)

Japanese Territorial Organization

312

(1)

Vocabulary Building

313

(1)

Further Reference

313

(1)

CHAPTER 24 JAPANESE POLITICAL ATTITUDES

314

(12)

Comparing: Guilt versus Shame

315

(1)

The United States and Japan: Destined to Misunderstand?

316

(1)

The Cult of the Group

316

(2)

The United States and Japan: Managing Differences

318

(1)

Education for Grinds

318

(2)

How Would You Do on a Japanese Exam?

319

(1)

Why Is Wa?

320

(1)

Death of a Sarariman

320

(2)

The United States and Japan: The Minamata Pieta

321

(1)

Political Suicide

322

(1)

Japanese Understatement: Sorry for the "Inconvenience"

322

(1)

The Honor of On

323

(1)

The "New Human Race"

323

(1)

Comparing: Changing Political Cultures of Germany and Japan

324

(1)

Vocabulary Building

324

(1)

Further Reference

325

(1)

CHAPTER 25 JAPAN: PATTERNS OF INTERACTION

326

(11)

Bureaucrats in Command

327

(3)

Japan's Major Interest Groups

327

(1)

Comparing: Bureaucratic Elites in France and Japan

328

(1)

The United States and Japan: An American DITI?

329

(1)

The Big Three of Japanese Scandals

330

(1)

Corruption Scandals

330

(2)

Comparing: Can "Money Politics" Be Broken?

331

(1)

No One in Charge?

332

(1)

The Dangers of Multiparty Coalitions

333

(2)

Plus ca Change: Who Is Really in Charge?

334

(1)

The Hopes of Reform

335

(1)

Vocabulary Building

336

(1)

Further Reference

336

(1)

CHAPTER 26 WHAT JAPANESE QUARREL ABOUT

337

(13)

The Japanese Economic Miracle

337

(1)

Japan Destroys the German Photo Industry

338

(1)

The Secret of Japan's Success

338

(3)

Equality Works

340

(1)

From Success to Failure

341

(3)

Japanese Understatement: "Japan Has a Trade Surplus"

341

(1)

Purchasing Power Parity

342

(1)

Silly Excuses to Exclude Foreign Goods

343

(1)

Poor Man's PPP: The Big Mac Index

344

(1)

Should Japanese Live Better?

344

(1)

Could Japan Turn Aggressive?

345

(2)

Repeal Article 9?

346

(1)

A New Japan?

347

(1)

The Japanese Non-Welfare State

347

(1)

Vocabulary Building

348

(1)

Further Reference

348

(2)

PART VI THE THIRD WORLD

350

(139)

What Is the Third World?

352

(1)

CHAPTER 27 CHINA

353

(32)

The Impact of the Past

353

(7)

A Traditional Political System

353

(2)

The Long Collapse

355

(2)

Confucianism: Government by Right Thinking

355

(1)

Cyclical versus Secular Change

356

(1)

From Empire to Republic

357

(1)

The Communist Triumph

358

(2)

Mao and Guerilla War

359

(1)

The Key Institutions

360

(5)

The Soviet Parallel

360

(3)

Tandem Power: Mao and Zhou

361

(1)

The Invisible Puppeteer: Deng Xiaoping

362

(1)

The Party

363

(1)

The Army

363

(2)

Tandem Power Continues

364

(1)

Chinese Political Attitudes

365

(6)

Traditional Attitudes

365

(2)

Reverence for Age

366

(1)

Nationalism

367

(1)

Maoism

367

(2)

Slogans from the Cultural Revolution

368

(1)

Concealed Anger

369

(2)

Big Lie and Little Whisper

369

(2)

Patterns of Interaction

371

(6)

Cycles of Upheaval

371

(1)

Radicals and Moderates

371

(3)

The Great Leap Forward: "Twenty Years in a Day"

372

(1)

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: "Bombard the Command Post"

373

(1)

Chinese Liberal and Conservative Politics

374

(1)

The Underlying Problem

375

(2)

Anti-Western Campaigns

375

(1)

The Tienanmen Massacre

376

(1)

What Chinese Quarrel About

377

(8)

A Market Economy for China?

377

(2)

The Trouble with Markets

378

(1)

A Middle Way for the Middle Kingdom?

379

(2)

How Many Chinese?

380

(1)

Do Markets Lead to Democracy?

381

(2)

The Hong Kong Problem

382

(1)

Dissent and Democracy

383

(1)

Vocabulary Building

383

(1)

Further Reference

384

(1)

CHAPTER 28 BRAZIL

385

(35)

The Impact of the Past

385

(7)

The Portuguese Influence

385

(2)

A Painless Independence

387

(1)

From Empire to Republic

388

(1)

The Old Republic

389

(1)

"Order and Progress"

389

(1)

The Addiction of Statism

390

(1)

Vargas's "New State"

390

(1)

The Rise and Fall of Jango Goulart

391

(1)

The Key Institutions

392

(7)

The Military as Political Institution

392

(2)

Brazil's Powerful Military School

393

(1)

The President Who Never Was

394

(1)

The Presidency

394

(2)

Comparing: Spain Turns Democratic

395

(1)

A New Democratic Constitution

396

(1)

An Emerging Party System

396

(2)

The 1994 Election: The Inflation Connection

397

(1)

A Lack of Institutions

398

(1)

Brazilian Political Attitudes

399

(6)

The Easygoing Image

399

(1)

Personalismo and Machismo

400

(1)

Brazilian Racism

400

(2)

Comparing: Apartheid, Brazilian Style

401

(1)

Brazil's Poor: Passive or Explosive?

402

(1)

Marginals in Brazil's Favelas

402

(1)

Uneven Democratic Attitudes

403

(2)

Latin America's Changing Leftists

404

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

405

(7)

An Elite Game

405

(1)

The Mobilization-Demobilization Cycle

405

(2)

Political Mobilization, Brazilian Style

406

(1)

The Inflation Connection

407

(1)

"Praetorianism"

407

(1)

Brazil's Desperate Struggle against Inflation

408

(1)

The Corruption Connection

408

(1)

Resurgent Interest Groups

409

(1)

The Brazilian Political Cycle

409

(1)

The Church as Opposition

410

(2)

Chico Mendes: Another Death in the Amazon

411

(1)

What Brazilians Quarrel About

412

(8)

How to Make a Second Brazilian Miracle

412

(1)

"They Got an Awful Lot of Everything in Brazil"

412

(1)

Headed for Extinction: Brazil's Indians

413

(1)

Brazil's State Capitalism

413

(2)

Great Brazilian Wisecracks

414

(1)

Great Brazilian Wisecracks

415

(1)

Growth for Whom?

415

(1)

The Population Problem

416

(1)

Will Brazilian Democracy Last?

417

(1)

Crime and Punishment, Brazilian Style

417

(1)

Vocabulary Building

418

(1)

Further Reference

418

(2)

CHAPTER 29 SOUTH AFRICA

420

(33)

The Impact of the Past

420

(6)

The Great Trek

421

(2)

South Africa's Population (in Millions)

422

(1)

Dingaan's Kraal: Still Remembered

423

(1)

The Boer War

423

(1)

From Defeat to Victory

424

(2)

Why Did Apartheid End?

425

(1)

The Key Institutions

426

(9)

System in Flux

426

(1)

A Quasi-Presidential System

426

(1)

South African Might-Have-Been: The Black and Coloured Vote

427

(1)

A Bicameral Parliament

427

(2)

Nelson Mandela: A President for All South Africans

428

(1)

The Cabinet

429

(2)

Comparing: How to Reform an Unjust System?

430

(1)

The Parties

431

(4)

A Constitutional Court for South Africa

431

(1)

Beware the Confusion: South Africa's Two "National" Parties

432

(1)

1994: A New Proportional Representation System in Action

433

(1)

Home for Four Million People?

434

(1)

Farewell to the Homelands

435

(1)

South African Political Attitudes

435

(5)

The Africans

435

(1)

The Afrikaners

436

(2)

From Euphoria to Dysphoria

436

(1)

A Lost Generation of African Youth

437

(1)

Do Afrikaners Change?

438

(1)

The English Speakers

438

(1)

The Browns

439

(1)

South African Might-Have-Been: If the English Had Retained Power

439

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

440

(6)

Politics within the ANC

440

(1)

Why Do Plural Societies Cohere? "Cross-Cutting Cleavages"

441

(1)

The ANC and the Whites

441

(2)

Why Do Plural Societies Cohere? "Consociational Democracy"

442

(1)

The ANC versus Inkatha

443

(1)

South Africa's Bloodshed: Whose Fault?

443

(1)

New Player: COSATU

444

(1)

An Emerging Party System

444

(2)

Harvest of Hatred

446

(1)

What South Africans Quarrel About

446

(7)

How to Manage a Revolution

446

(2)

How Much Truth Can South Africa Take?

447

(1)

Favelas in South Africa?

448

(1)

Capitalism for South Africa?

448

(1)

The Brazilianization of South Africa?

449

(1)

Which Way for South Africa?

450

(1)

A Separate KwaZulu?

450

(1)

Who Can Replace Mandela?

451

(1)

Vocabulary Building

451

(1)

Further Reference

452

(1)

CHAPTER 30 IRAN

453

(30)

The Impact of the Past

453

(6)

The Arab Conquest

454

(1)

Western Penetration

454

(1)

The First Pahlavi

455

(2)

Comparing: Ataturk and Reza Shah

456

(1)

The Last Pahlavi

457

(2)

The Big U.S. Mistake

457

(2)

The Key Institutions

459

(4)

A Theocracy

459

(1)

Iran's 1997 Presidential Election

460

(1)

Iran's Executive

460

(1)

Iran's Legislature

461

(1)

The Strange "Council of Guardians"

461

(1)

Emerging Parties?

462

(1)

A Partly Free System

463

(1)

Iranian Political Attitudes

463

(7)

Is Islam Anti-Modern?

464

(2)

Is Islamic "Fundamentalism" the Right Name?

466

(1)

Islam as a Political Ideology

466

(1)

Democracy and Authority

467

(1)

Are Iranians Religious Fanatics?

467

(1)

Islamic Modernization: The Silencing of Soroush

468

(1)

Persian Nationalism

468

(2)

Sunni and Shia

469

(1)

Patterns of Interaction

470

(6)

Religion as a Political Tool

470

(1)

Does Islam Discriminate against Women?

470

(1)

Radicals and Moderates in Iran

471

(4)

The U.S. Embassy Takeover

472

(1)

Saudi Arabia: The Next Iran?

473

(1)

Mullahs versus Bazaaris

474

(1)

The Revolution Burns Out

475

(1)

What Iranians Quarrel About

476

(7)

Which Way for Iran's Economy?

476

(2)

How Many Iranians?

477

(1)

Open Letter to Americans: Don't Mess with Iran

478

(1)

The Veiled Debate on Islam

478

(2)

Open Letter to Iranians: Don't Mess with America

479

(1)

A Fatwa on Rushdie

480

(1)

What Kind of Foreign Policy?

480

(1)

Do Revolutions End Badly?

481

(1)

Vocabulary Building

482

(1)

Further Reference

482

(1)

CHAPTER 31 LESSONS OF NINE COUNTRIES

483

(6)

GLOSSARY

489

(8)

INDEX

497

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

9780136252450

0136252451

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politics

9780136252450

0136252451

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Related Products