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Readings in Comparative Politics Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

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ISBN-10: 0618426256

ISBN-13: 9780618426256

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger

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Readings in Comparative Politics is divided into six sectionsStates and Regimes, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, Politics of Collective Identity, Political Institutions and Public Policies, and Political Challenges and Changing Agendasthat correspond to the four main themes found in Kesselman's Introduction to Comparative Politics survey text. The selected readings are drawn from a variety of published, unpublished, and electronic sources. They tend to be general and theoretical in nature and were carefully selected to provide a good sample of the wide range of popular and scholarly views relevant to the major topics presented in introductory courses. The readings…    
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List price: $103.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 6/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Mark Kesselman is senior editor of the International Political Science Review and professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political economy of French and European politics. His publications include The Ambiguous Consensus (1967), The French Workers Movement (1984), The Politics of Globalization: A Reader (2012), and The Politics of Power (2013). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, World Politics, and Comparative Politics.

Introduction
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?
Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld
States and Regimes
Charles Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime
Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism
Martin van Creveld, The Fate of the State
Robert Rotberg, Failed States in a World of Terror
Saskia Sassen, The State and Globalization
Govering the Economy
Peter Gourevitch, Political Economy
Amartya Sen, The Importance of Democracy
David Coates, Models of Capitalism in the New World Order
Daniel Treisman, Stabilization Tactics in Latin America: Menem, Cardoso, and the Politics of Low Inflation
Robert J. S. Ross and Anita Chan, From North-South to South-South
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalism's Discontents
The Challenge of Democracy
Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition
Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, What Democracy Is. . .and Is Not
Amartya Sen, Democracy as a Universal Value
Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Toward Consolidated Democracies
Valerie Bunce, Rethinking Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience
Guillermo O'Donnell, Illusions About Consolidation
Thomas Carothers, The End of the Transition Paradigm
Collective Identities
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Cultural Obstacles to Equal Representation
Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture
Howard Winant, Race in the Twenty-First Century
Harold L. Wilensky, Migration and Politics: Explaining Variation Among Rich Democracies in Recent Nativist Protest
Walker Connor, A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is a. . .
Vali Nasr, Lessons from the Muslim World
Political Institutions and Public Policies
Alfred Stepan, with Cindy Skach, Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War
Benjamin Reilly, Electoral Systems for Divided Societies
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Stepsisters: Feminist Movement Activism in Different Institutional Spaces
Steven Sanderson, The Future of Conservation
S. Laurel Weldon, Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National Comparison
Political Challenges and Changing Agendas
Dick Howard, After September 11th: Chances for a Left Foreign Policy
Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein, Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads
Sidney Tarrow, A Movement Society?
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Bill McKibben, An Alternative to Progress