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| Preface | |
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| Methodology and Comparative Analysis | |
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| Does the Comparative Method Contribute to Building a Body of Explanatory Theory about Political Outcomes? | |
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| The Epistemology of Social Science and the Comparative Method | |
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| Beyond the Comparative Method | |
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| What Is the Utility of Formal Theory in Comparative Analysis? | |
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| Methodological Pathologies | |
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| In Defense of the Rational Choice Approach | |
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| The Practice and Context of Democratic Politics | |
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| Why Do Some Democracies Emphasize Representation While Others Emphasize Ruling? | |
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| The Westminster Model of Democracy | |
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| The Consensus Model of Democracy | |
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| Ideological Change or Ideological Decline? | |
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| The End of History? | |
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| Post-Materialism in an Environment of Insecurity | |
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| Value Change in Industrial Societies | |
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| Systems and Institutions | |
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| Realignment or Dealignment? | |
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| New Forms of Democracy? Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions | |
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| The Extreme Right: Defining the Object and Assessing the Causes | |
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| Do Electoral Institutions Matter? | |
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| Why Study Electoral Systems? and General Features of Electoral Systems | |
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| Who Has the Right to Vote? | |
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| What Executive Style Is Most Favorable to Democracy? | |
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| The Perils of Presidentialism | |
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| What Makes Presidential Democracies Fragile? | |
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| Juan Linz, Presidentialism, and Democracy: A Critical Appraisal | |
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| The State and National Sovereignty | |
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| What Is the Importance of the Nation-State in an Age of Globalization? | |
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| The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization | |
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| Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate | |
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| Should the Nation-State Be Replaced by Larger Political Units? | |
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| The Case Against "Europe" | |
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| The EU and Its "Constitution": Public Opinion, Political Elites, and Their International Context | |
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| Understanding the Dutch "No": The Euro, the East, and the Elite | |
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| Modernization | |
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| Does Modernization Lead to Stable and Effective Democracy? | |
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| Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force | |
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| Toward a Non-Ethnocentric Theory of Development | |
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| Is Dependency Theory an Explanation or an Ideology? | |
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| Dependency and Imperialism: The Roots of Latin American Underdevelopment | |
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| Structuring the Concepts of Dependency Reversal | |
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| Violence and Revolution | |
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| Which Approach, Macro or Micro, Best Explains Political Violence? | |
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| A Causal Model of Civil Strife: A Comparative Analysis Using New Indices | |
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| Social Revolutions and Mass Military Mobilization | |
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| The Clash of Civilizations? | |
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| Transitions to Democracy | |
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| What Causes Transitions to Democracy? | |
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| Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven Explanations | |
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| Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model | |
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| Can Democratic Transition Be Consolidated? | |
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| Illusions about Consolidation | |
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| Toward Consolidated Democracies | |
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| Are There Cultural Requisites for Democracy? | |
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| Review of Edward Friedman, Ed., The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing East Asian Experiences | |
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| A Revised Theory of Modernization | |
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| Index | |