Readings in Comparative Politics Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

by Kesselman, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780547212746
• ISBN10: 0547212747
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-13
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

READINGS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 2nd Edition, is a collection drawn from a variety of published, unpublished, and electronic sources. The author has carefully selected these readings, which are theoretical in nature, to offer students a good sample of the wide range of popular and scholarly views relevant to the major topics presented in introductory comparative courses. The works are divided into seven sections?an Introduction, States and Regimes, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, Collective Identity, Political Institutions and Political Challenges and Changing Agendas.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The End of History?	p. 10
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century	p. 18
The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers	p. 29
The Clash of Civilizations?	p. 37
Us and Them	p. 52
Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable? Parting Ways Over Nationalism and Separatism	p. 59
States and Regimes	p. 72
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil	p. 74
The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy	p. 81
The State and Globalization	p. 89
The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism	p. 95
Failed States in a World of Terror	p. 105
The New Middle Ages	p. 113
Governing the Economy	p. 121
Political Economy	p. 123
Models of Capitalism in the New World Order	p. 129
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism	p. 138
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective	p. 150
From North-South to South-South	p. 164
Globalism's Discontents	p. 170
The Challenge of Democracy	p. 182
Democracy as a Universal Value	p. 184
Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition	p. 194
What Democracy Is...and Is Not	p. 201
Toward Consolidated Democracies	p. 212
Rethinking Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience	p. 222
Illusions About Consolidation	p. 232
The End of the Transition Paradigm	p. 247
Collective Identities	p. 257
Cultural Obstacles to Equal Representation	p. 258
The Claims of Culture	p. 269
Race in the Twenty-First Century	p. 276
Migration and Politics: Explaining Variation Among Rich Democracies in Recent Nativist Protest	p. 288
A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is a...	p. 300
Lessons from the Muslim World	p. 310
Political Institutions	p. 316
The Perils of Presidentialism	p. 318
Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War	p. 329
Are New Democracies War-Prone?	p. 338
Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse	p. 345
Electoral Systems for Divided Societies	p. 357
Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National Comparison	p. 364
Political Challenges and Changing Agendas	p. 371
Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads	p. 372
A Movement Society?	p. 379
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital	p. 392
The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust	p. 403
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad	p. 412
An Alternative to Progress	p. 421
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet	p. 429
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