Essential Readings in Comparative Politics

by O'Neil, Patrick H.; Rogowski, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780393925173
• ISBN10: 039392517X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
What Is Comparative Politics?
``A Survey of the Field of Comparative Government'' from The Study of Comparative Government	2	(8)
Roy C. Macridis
``Observation, Speculation, and Modeling'' from An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences	10	(24)
Charles A. Lave
James G. March
The State
``Politics as a Vocation''	34	(6)
Max Weber
``Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research'' from Bringing the State Back In	40	(8)
Theda Skocpol
``War and the State in Africa''	48	(14)
Jeffrey Herbst
``The New Nature of Nation-State Failure''	62	(10)
Robert I. Rotberg
Nations and Society
``Nationalism'' from The Age of Revolution	72	(8)
Eric Hobsbawm
``The Global Menace of Local Strife''	80	(4)
``Ethnic Diversity: An Economic Analysis''	84	(22)
Paul Collier
``Comparative Political Systems''	106	(10)
Gabriel A. Almond
Political Economy
``Fable of the Bees''	116	(5)
Bernard Mandeville
``On Foreign Trade'' from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation	121	(1)
David Ricardo
``Trade Winds''	122	(5)
``The Hidden Cost of Taxes''	127	(2)
``Institutions''	129	(12)
Douglass C. North
``Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?''	141	(13)
Alberto Alesina
Edward Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote
Authoritarianism
``Modern Nondemocratic Regimes,'' from Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation	154	(12)
Juan J. Linz
Alfred Stepan
``Thinking about Hybrid Regimes''	166	(11)
Larry Diamond
``Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas''	177	(20)
Jack Snyder
Karen Ballentine
``Dot Com for Dictators''	197	(8)
Shanthi Kalathil
Democracy
``A Brief History of Human Liberty,'' from The Future of Freedom	205	(15)
Fareed Zakaria
``What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not''	220	(10)
Philippe C. Schmitter
Terry Lynn Karl
``Constitutional Choices for New Democracies''	230	(9)
Arend Lijphart
``Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America''	239	(27)
Robert D. Putnam
``Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic''	266	(14)
Sheri Berman
Advanced Democracies
``Author's Introduction'' from Democracy in America	280	(7)
Alexis de Tocqueville
``Economic Development and Democracy'' from Political Man	287	(14)
Seymour Martin Lipset
``The Number of Parties'' from Political Parties	301	(4)
Maurice Duverger
``Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy''	305	(9)
John D. Huber
G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
``Is Government Disappearing?''	314	(9)
Communism and Post-Communism
Manifesto of the Communist Party	323	(13)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
``A Prologue: The Fall of Communism,'' from Democracy and the Market	336	(5)
Adam Przeworski
``Reform and Openness''	341	(12)
Mary E. Gallagher
``What Beijing Can Learn from Moscow''	353	(9)
Ian Buruma
Less-Developed and Newly Industrializing Countries
``To Help the Poor'' from The Elusive Quest for Growth	362	(8)
William Easterly
``Divergence, Big Time''	370	(12)
Lant Pritchett
``Liberty's Great Advance''	382	(5)
``Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?''	387	(17)
Paul Collier
Jan Willem Gunning
``Democracy: A Recipe for Growth?''	404	(2)
Robert J. Barro
``Political Regimes and Economic Growth'' from Democracy and Development	406	(9)
Adam Przeworski
``The Invisible Hand of Democracy''	415	(20)
David A. Lake
Matthew A. Baum
Globalization
``Clash of Globalizations''	435	(6)
Stanley Hoffman
``A Perfect Crime: Inequality in the Age of Globalization''	441	(11)
James K. Galbraith
``Globalization's Democratic Deficit''	452	(4)
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
``Grinding the Poor''	456	(8)
Political Violence
``France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions''	464	(17)
Theda Skocpol
``The Causes of Terrorism''	481	(16)
Martha Crenshaw
``States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations,'' from Understanding September 11	497
Jack A. Goldstone