Comparative Politics Using MicroCase ExplorIt

Designed to supplement core Comparative Politics textbooks, COMPARATIVE POLITICS: USING MICROCASE EXPLORIT provides students with award-winning software to analyze and critically evaluate real data. This workbook includes a Windows version of MicroCase ExplorIt, a user-friendly program that makes it easy for students to manipulate and learn from real data without getting bogged down in complicated statistical software. Over two dozen research-quality data files are included in this package, along with 16 exercise worksheets (1 per chapter) that let students see the real impact of the concepts they study. This unique workbook/software package allows students to "do" comparative politics, not just read about it.

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface

ix

Getting Started

xi

Part I Doing Comparative Politics with ExplorIt

5

(56)

The Nation-State

7

(22)

People, Populations, and State Capacity

29

(16)

Organizing Political Systems: First, Second, and Third Worlds?

45

(16)

Part II Politics and Government in Liberal Democracies

61

(72)

Political Culture in Liberal Democracies

63

(22)

Political Participation: Making Democracy Work

85

(14)

Electoral Systems in Liberal Democracies

99

(14)

Political Parties in the United Kingdom and Germany

113

(20)

Part III Communist and Postcommunist Societies

133

(34)

After Communism

135

(18)

Russia, Poland, and Democratic Transition

153

(14)

Part IV Newly Industrializing Countries

167

(56)

Developing Nations: What Determines Wealth and Poverty?

171

(14)

Newly Industrializing Countries

185

(18)

Political Culture in South Korea and India

203

(20)

Part V Less Developed Countries and Marginal States

223

(40)

War, Politics, and Poverty in LDCs and Marginal States

225

(20)

Social Capital in Nigeria and South Africa

245

(18)

Part VI The Islamic World

263

Features of the Islamic World

265

(16)

Islam and Politics in Pakistan and Turkey

281

Appendix: Variable Names and Sources

1

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