Arguing Comparative Politics

Name: Arguing Comparative Politics
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ISBN: 9780198299974

ISBN-10: 0198299974

ISBN-13: 9780198299974

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alfred Stepan

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This volume brings together new and classic articles by one of the leading scholars in comparative politics. The articles focus in particular on the nature of contemporary democracy and its prospects. The volume begins with a personal analysis of the intellectual, and often political, reasons why and how Stepan chose to engage in certain critical arguments over the last thirty years. The volume is then divided into three sections, each with a distinctive theme: state and society; constructing polities; and varieties of democracies. The introduction and articles ask whether, both for intellectual and political reasons, there are strong grounds for questioning both Rawls and Huntington on…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: Reflections on 'Problem Selection' in Comparative Politics



The State and Society



The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role Expansion



Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and 'Organic Statist' Approaches to the State



State Power and the Strength of Civil Society in the Southern Cone of Latin America



Military Politics in Three Polity Arenas: Civil Society, Political Society, and the State



Constructing and Deconstructing Polities: Contexts, Capacities and Identities



Paths Toward Redemocratization: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations



Political Crafting of Democratic Consolidation or Destruction: European and South American Comparisons




On the Tasks of a Democratic Opposition



Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory



Modern Multi-National Democracies: Transcending a Gellnerian Oxymoron



Political Identities and Electoral Sequences: Spain, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia




The World s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the Twin Tolerations



The Meta-frameworks of Democratic Governance and Democratic States



Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism




The French Fifth Republic: A Model for Import? Reflections on Poland and Brazil




Toward Consolidated Democracies




Toward a New Comparative Analysis of Democracy and Federalism: 'Demos Constraining' and 'Demos Enabling' Federations