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Contending perspectives in comparative politics /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
CQ Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Methodology and comparative analysis 1 Does the comparative method contribute to building a body of explanatory theory about political outcomes?1.1 Epistemology of social science and the comparative method 1.2 Beyond the comparative method 2 what is the utility of formal theory in comparative analysis?2.1 Methodological pathologies 2.2 In defense of the rational choice approach Part 2 Practice and context of democratic politics 3.1 Westminster model of democracy 3.2 Consensus model of democracy 4 Ideological change or ideological decline?4.1 End of history 4.2 Post-materialism in an environment of insecurity 4.3 Value change in industrial societies Part 3 Systems and institutions 5 Realignment or dealignment? 5.1 New forms of democracy?Reform and transformation of democratic institutions 5.2 Extreme right:defining the object and assessing the causes 6 Do electoral institutions matter? 6.1 Why study electoral systems?and general features of electoral systems 6.2 who has the right to vote? 7 What executive style is most favorable to democracy? 7.1 The perils of presidentialism 7.2 What makes presidential democracies fragile? 7.3 Juan Linz,presidentialism and democracy Part 4 State and national sovereignty 8 Importance of the nation-state in an age of globalization 8.1 eclipse of the state?reflections on stateness in an era of globalization 8.2 Sense and nonsense in the globalization debate 9 Should the nation state be replaced by larger political units? 9.1 Case against Europe 9.2 The EU and its constitution :public opinion,political elites and their international context 9.3 Understanding the Dutch" No":the euro,the east,and the elite Part 5 Modernization 10 Does Modernization lead to stable and effective democracy? 10.1 Rapid growth as a destabilizing force 10.2 toward a non-ethnocentric theory of development 11 Is dependency theory an explanation or an ideology? 11.1 Dependency and imperialism:roots of Latin American underdevelopment 11.2 Structuring the concepts of dependency reversal Part 6 Violence and revolution 12 Which approach ,macro or micro,best explains political violence?12.1 Causal model of civil strife :a comparative analysis using new indices 12.2 Social revolutions and mass military mobilization 12.3 Clash of civilization? Part 7 What causes transitions to democracy?13.1 political regime change :structure and process-driven explanations 13.2 Transitions to democracy :toward a dynamical model 14 Can democratic transition be consolidated? 14.1 Illusions about consolidation 14.2 Toward consolidated democracies 15 Are there cultural requisites for democracy 15.1 Review of Edward Friedman Ed.,the politics of democratization:generalizing East Asian experiences 15.2 A revised theory of modernization