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Understanding comparative politics : a framework for analysis /
Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study of the subject. Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and propos...
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| Formatua: | Printed Book |
| Hizkuntza: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Edizioa: | 2nd ed. |
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Table of contents only Publisher description Table of contents |
Aurkibidea:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Approaches to comparative analysis
- 2. Theories of comparative politics: a brief overview
- The state
- The political system
- Bringing the state back in
- Conclusion
- Part II. The comparative study of politics
- 3. A synthesis
- An alternative approach
- Conclusion
- 4. States and social institutions
- State institutions
- Social institutions
- Conclusion
- 5. A framework for analysis
- The state-in-society approach
- A sharper focus
- Analytical applications
- Conclusion
- Part III. State in comparative perspective
- 6. Democratic states
- State classifications
- First world democracies
- New democracies
- Pseudo-democracies
- Conclusion
- 7. Non-democratic states
- Inclusionary populist regimes
- Bureaucratic-authoritarian dictatorships
- Conclusion
- Part IV. State-society interactions: revolution & democratization
- 8. Revolutions
- Causes of revolutions
- State breakdown
- Revolutionary mass mobilization
- Conclusion
- 9. Democratization
- Civil society and civil society organizations
- Democratic transitions
- Conclusion
- 10. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.