Comparative Politics Notes and Readings

A perennial best-seller, this anthology features a unique mix of classic and contemporary essays that have provided generations of instructors with a stimulating overview of tested theories and current trends in comparative politics.

Preface
About the Editor
Introduction: On Comparing Nations
SECTION I: METHODS OF COMPARISON
1. Comparative Analysis: The Search for Focus, Roy C
Macridis
2. Area Discipline, Robert H
Bates
3. Preconception vs
Observation, Chalmers Johnson
4. Rational Choice, Culture, and Problem-Oriented Research, Ian Shapiro
PART ONE: POLITICAL CHANGE
SECTION II: MODERNIZATION AND POST-MODERNIZATION
5. The Dynamics of Modernization, Samuel H
Beer
6. The Creation of Knowledge and Technique, David Landes
7. British Rule in India, Karl Marx
8. Values, Economic Development, and Political Change, Ronald Inglehart
9. An Ecofeminist Perspective, J
Ann Tickner
SECTION III: REVOLUTION AND PROTEST
10. Frameworks of the Great Revolutions, S
N
Eisenstadt
11. Social Transformations of the Twentieth Century, Alain Touraine II
12. Revolution and Anomie, Bernard E
Brown
13. Democracy, Utopia, and Revolution, Francois Furet
PART TWO: PATTERNS OF LEGITIMACY
SECTION IV: ETHNICITY, NATION, STATE
14. Varieties of Nationalism, Liah Greenfeld
15. What Is a State?, Max Weber 16
Bringing the State Back in, Theda Skocpoliso
17. Prisoners of the State, Charles Tilly
SECTION V: DEMOCRACIES
18. Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies, Guillermo O'Donnell
19. Majoritarian Versus Consensual Democracy, Arend Liphart
20. Democracy and Democratization, Carole Pateman
21. Worker Democracy: A Test Case, Bernard E
Brown
SECTION VI: AUTHORITARIANISM: OLD AND NEW
22. On Democracy and Tyranny, Aristotle
23. What Was Communism?, Andrew C
Janos
24. The End of Communism in China, Arthur Waldron
SECTION VII: TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY
25. The Future of the Third Wave, Samuel P
Huntington
26. Comparing East and South, Valerie Bunce
27. Islam and Liberal Democracy, Bernard Lewis
Part Three: Political Dynamics
SECTION VIII: THE CIVIL SOCIETY
29. Bowling Alone, Robert D
Putnam
30. The Paradox of Civil Society, Michael W
Foley and Bob Edwards
SECTION IX: POLITICAL PARTIES
31. The Iron Law of Oligarchy, Robert Michels
32. Leadership and Change in Party Systems, Klaus von Beyme
33. Erosion of the Class and Religion Vote, Mattei Dogan
34. The Rise of New Political Parties, Piero Ignazi
Part Four: Political Institutions
SECTION X: DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER? 35. Institutional Perspectives, James March and Johan Olsen
36. Presidential vs
Parliamentary Democracy: A Debate
A
The Perils of Presidentialism, Juan J
Linz
B
Comparing Democratic Instititutions, Donald L
Horowitz
C
A Final Comment, Juan J
Linz
37. Governance and Performancd, Joel D
Aberbach and Berta Rockman
38. Judicial Review and the Arab World, Nathan J
Brown
SECTION XI: POLITICAL PERFORMANCE
39. Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State, Peter A
Hall
40. Equality versus Inequality, Roberta Dahl
41. Corruption and Shifting Values, Yves Meny
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