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| Preface | |
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| To the Reader | |
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| On Knowing the Political World | |
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| Politics and Knowledge | |
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| Towards a Definition of Politics | |
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| On Political Knowledge | |
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| Types of Political Knowledge | |
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| Description | |
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| Explanation | |
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| Prescription | |
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| The Acid Test I | |
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| Sources of Political Knowledge | |
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| Authority | |
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| Personal Thought | |
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| Science | |
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| Political Science | |
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| Doing Comparative Analysis | |
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| Political Science and Political Knowledge | |
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| The Debate In 1 Is Political Science Possible? | |
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| The Subfields of Political Science ? | |
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| Where is This Book Going? | |
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| The Political Knowledge of Different Age Groups in the United States | |
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| Political Behavior | |
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| Political Theory and Political Beliefs | |
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| Normative Political Theory | |
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| Great Britain as a Context for Some Great Political Theorists | |
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| Political Ideology | |
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| Conservatism | |
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| Classical Liberalism | |
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| Socialism | |
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| Some Further Points About "Isms" | |
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| Individual Political Beliefs | |
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| Types of Political Orientations | |
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| Identifying Specific Beliefs | |
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| Belief Systems | |
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| Political Culture | |
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| National Character Studies | |
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| Is There a "Clash of Civilizations"? | |
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| Survey Research Analyses | |
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| Value Differences Across Countries | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Political Actions | |
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| Individual Political Actions | |
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| Modes of Political Activity | |
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| Political Activists | |
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| Political Participation Studies | |
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| Extent of Political Actions in Mexico and Poland | |
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| Group Political Actions | |
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| Political Interest Groups | |
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| Activities of Political Interest Groups | |
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| Constraints on a Group's Behavior | |
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| Types of Interest Groups | |
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| How Interested Are Interest Groups in Democracy? | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| Activities of Political Parties | |
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| Let's Party! The Rise of the Green Party in Germany | |
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| Doing Politics | |
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| Influences on Beliefs and Actions | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Agents of Political Socialization | |
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| The Family | |
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| Political Socialization in China | |
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| Schools | |
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| Peer Groups | |
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| The Media | |
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| Do the New ICTs Substantially Change Our Political Beliefs and Actions? | |
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| Religion | |
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| Culture | |
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| Events | |
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| Personal Characteristics | |
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| You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine | |
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| Political Personality | |
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| Personality | |
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| Biology and Human Nature | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Political Systems | |
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| Political Systems, States, and Nations | |
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| The State | |
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| A Legal Definition of the State | |
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| A Structural-Functional Definition of the State | |
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| Does Humanitarian Intervention Violate State Sovereignty? | |
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| Major Goals | |
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| The Nation | |
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| Nation and State | |
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| State and Nations: The Indian Subcontinent | |
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| The Political System | |
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| Power and Authority | |
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| Conceptualization of the Political System | |
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| Three Major Concepts: A Reprise | |
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| Political Institutions I: Institutional Structures | |
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| Executives | |
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| Roles of Executives | |
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| Structural Arrangements | |
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| The Age of the Executive? | |
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| Legislatures | |
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| Roles of the Legislature | |
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| Electoral Systems and Legislative Representation: South Africa | |
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| Legislative Structures | |
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| The Decline of Legislatures | |
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| Administrative Systems | |
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| Administrative Functions and Power | |
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| Bureaucracy as One Form of Administration | |
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| Five Styles of Administration | |
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| Judiciaries | |
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| Aspects of Adjudication | |
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| Judicial Structures | |
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| Is Judicial Review Democratic? | |
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| Styles of Adjudication | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Political Institutions II: Institutional Arrangements | |
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| Constitutions and Constitutional Regimes | |
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| Constitutions | |
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| Constitutional Regimes | |
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| Nonconstitutional Regimes | |
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| Democracies and Nondemocracies | |
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| Defining Democracy | |
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| Defining Nondemocracies | |
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| A Democracy-Nondemocracy Measure | |
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| Areal Distribution of Power | |
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| Unitary State | |
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| Federation | |
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| Confederation | |
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| Forms of Executive-Legislative Relations | |
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| Presidential Government | |
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| Parliamentary Government | |
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| Hybrid Systems | |
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| Council Systems | |
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| A Hybrid System in Action: France | |
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| Assembly Systems | |
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| Which Form Is Optimal? | |
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| Which Form of Government Is Preferable: Parliamentary, Presidential, or Hybrid? | |
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| Political Party Systems | |
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| Two-Party Systems | |
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| Multiparty Systems | |
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| Dominant-Party Systems | |
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| One-Party Systems | |
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| Party Systems in Four Countries | |
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| No-Party Systems | |
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| Classification and Clarity | |
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| Political Economy | |
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| Politics and Economics | |
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| A Political-Economic Framework | |
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| Factors, Firms, and Households/Consumers | |
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| Getting and Spending | |
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| The State Joins In | |
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| The World Joins In | |
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| The Economy Strikes Back | |
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| Measuring Economic Prosperity | |
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| Wealth Inequality | |
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| Two Ideal-Type Political Economies | |
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| The Market Economy: Total Private Contro | |
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| The Command Economy: Total State Control | |
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| Key Problems of Each Ideal-Type Political Economy | |
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| Market Economy | |
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| Command Economy | |
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| The Mixed Economy | |
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| Mexico's Political Economy | |
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| Politics Plus Political Economy: The Other "ISMS" | |
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| The Three "Isms" | |
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| The Real World | |
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| Is Communism Dead? | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Political Processes | |
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| Public Policy, Power, and Decision | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| Types of Public Policies | |
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| Selected Public Policies in Seven Countries | |
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| Analysis of the Stages of the Policy Process | |
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| Policy Impact Analysis | |
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| Policy Prescription | |
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| Explaining Public Policy Decision! Making | |
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| The Elite Approach | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Major Theorists | |
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| The Public Policy Process | |
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| The Prevalence of Elite-Based Political Systems | |
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| Elite Politics in Swaziland | |
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| The Class Approach | |
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| The Public Policy Process | |
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| The Pluralist Approach | |
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| The Policymaking Process | |
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| The Debate In 9 | |
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| The Three Approaches Compared | |
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| Which Approach Is Correct? | |
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| Essential Similarities and Differences | |
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| Change and Political Development | |
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| Change | |
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| Development | |
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| Characteristics of "'More Developed" Human Systems | |
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| The Process of Development | |
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| The Dynamics of Economic Development | |
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| Political Development | |
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| Characteristics of Political Development | |
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| The Process of Political Development | |
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| Political Development and Modernization in Turkey | |
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| Political Development as Democratization | |
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| Is Economic Development a Necessary Prerequisite for Democracy? | |
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| World of Changes | |
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| Compare In 10 | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Politics Across Borders | |
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| Perspectives on States' Behavior | |
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| Realist and Idealist Perspectives on the States' "Motives" | |
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| A Geopolitical Perspective | |
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| Compare In 11 Geopolitics in Two Countries | |
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| Mechanisms of Political Cooperation Across Borders | |
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| Diplomacy and Interstate Agreements | |
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| International Law | |
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| International Organizations | |
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| Political Competition Across Borders | |
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| Transnational Systems of Power | |
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| Domination and Dependence | |
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| The Faces of Colonialism: Congo | |
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| Globalization? | |
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| The Debate In 11 | |
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| Competition in the Globalizing World | |
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| Political Violence | |
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| Violence | |
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| Political Society | |
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| Types of Political Violence | |
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| State Violence Against Individuals or Groups | |
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| Individual Violence Against an Individual | |
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| Group Violence Against an Individual | |
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| Group Violence Against a Group | |
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| The Debate In 12 Is Terrorism Ever a Justifiable Form of Political Violence? | |
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| Individual or Group Violence Against the State | |
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| Use of Force Between States | |
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| War | |
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| What Causes War? | |
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| Focus In 12 | |
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| Compare In 12 | |
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| Evaluating Political Violence: Means and Ends | |
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| Politics Among States | |
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| The Developed Countries of the Global North | |
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| Grouping the States in the Contemporary World | |
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| The Developed Countries of the Global North | |
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| The Developing Countries of the Global South | |
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| The Transitional Developed Countries | |
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| Goal: Prosperity | |
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| Mixed Economy | |
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| Sweden and Switzerland | |
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| Performance | |
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| Challenges to Prosperity | |
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| Are the Social Democracies Dying? | |
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| Goal: Stability | |
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| Liberal Democracies | |
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| Political Institutionalization | |
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| Order Maintenance | |
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| Welcome to the Brave New World: Singapore | |
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| Challenges to Stability | |
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| Goal: Security | |
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| The Era of Colonialism | |
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| The Cold War Period | |
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| The Post-Cold War Period | |
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| Challenges to Security | |
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| The Developed Countries Overall | |
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| The Developing Countries of the Global South | |
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| Grouping Countries in the Developing World | |
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| Developmental Classification | |
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| Regional Classification | |
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| Achieving Development in the Global South: Some Obstacles | |
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| Obstacles to Development: Nigeria and the Philippines | |
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| Goal: Prosperity | |
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| The Quest for Prosperity: Strategic Choices | |
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| Poor Women and Development: Microcredit in Bangladesh | |
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| Current Outcomes | |
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| Goal: Security | |
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| Interstate Violence | |
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| Economic Security | |
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| Goal: Stability | |
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| Inadequate Political Development | |
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| The Decline of Order | |
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| Democratization | |
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| Political Approaches | |
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| Is it Getting Better all the Time? | |
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| The Debate In 14 Will There Always Be a Third World? | |
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| The Transitional Developed Countries | |
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| The Postcommunist Developed Countries | |
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| Acid Test II | |
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| Goal: Prosperity | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Performance | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Goal: Stability | |
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| Strategies p420 | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Social Disorder | |
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| Nationality Conflicts | |
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| Entry into Europe and Global Society | |
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| Goal: Security | |
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| The Newly Industrializing Countries | |
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| Goal: Prosperity | |
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| Approach | |
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| Performance | |
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| FocusIn 15 | |
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| Goal: Stability | |
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| Asian NICs | |
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| Latin American NICs | |
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| Democratization? | |
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| Goal: Security | |
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| Asian NICs | |
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| Latin American NICs | |
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| The Future of the Transitional Developed Countries | |
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| The Postcommunist Developed Countries | |
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| The NICs | |
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| Next? | |
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| So… | |
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| The Final Debate What Time Is It? | |
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| Appendix: Political Analysis | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |