Comparative Politics Approaches and Issues

Name: Comparative Politics Approaches and Issues
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ISBN: 9780742530362

ISBN-10: 0742530361

ISBN-13: 9780742530362

Edition: 2006

Authors: Howard J. Wiarda, Esther M. Skelley

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Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in the field. Leading scholar Howard J. Wiarda explores its main approaches, including political development, political culture, dependency theory, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, state-society relations, rational choice, and the new institutionalism. The book then turns its attention to the hot issues in the field. The book concludes with a stimulating discussion of whether the great systems debates of the past (socialism vs. capitalism, democracy vs. authoritarianism) are now over, and points to some of the next important study and…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.11" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments


Preface



The Field of Comparative Politics



Introduction



New Directions in Comparative Politics



Approaches to the Field



Political Development



Political Culture and Comparative Politics



Corporatism and Comparative Politics



Indigenous Theories of Change



Political Development Revisited-and Its Alternatives



Hot Issues



Comparative Democracy and Democratization



Is Civil Society Exportable?



The Developing Nations: What Works in Development-and What Doesn't



Frontiers of Research in Comparative Politics



Comparative Politics: Toward New Frontiers



The End of the Great Systems Debate? Implications for Comparative Politics



Conclusion


Suggested Readings


Index


About the Author