Readings in Comparative Politics Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

by Kesselman, Mark; Krieger, Joel

• ISBN13: 9780618426256
• ISBN10: 0618426256
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Readings in Comparative Politicsis divided into six sections--States and Regimes, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, Politics of Collective Identity, Political Institutions and Public Policies, and Political Challenges and Changing Agendas--that correspond to the four main themes found in Kesselman'sIntroduction to Comparative Politicssurvey text. The selected readings are drawn from a variety of published, unpublished, and electronic sources. They tend to be general and theoretical in nature and were carefully selected to provide a good sample of the wide range of popular and scholarly views relevant to the major topics presented in introductory courses. The readings provide an extended opportunity to consider the four main themes used in the textbook: A World of States, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, and the Politics of Collective Identity. Excerpts are culled from a variety of sources including scholarly articles from journals and books, op-ed and newspaper articles, government statements, and statements by interest groups and NGOs in the U.S. and other countries, including published sources and material disseminated by the Internet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?

Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?

Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld

States and Regimes

Charles Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime

Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil

Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism

Martin van Creveld, The Fate of the State

Robert Rotberg, Failed States in a World of Terror

Saskia Sassen, The State and Globalization

Govering the Economy

Peter Gourevitch, Political Economy

Amartya Sen, The Importance of Democracy

David Coates, Models of Capitalism in the New World Order

Daniel Treisman, Stabilization Tactics in Latin America: Menem, Cardoso, and the Politics of Low Inflation

Robert J. S. Ross and Anita Chan, From North-South to South-South

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalism's Discontents

The Challenge of Democracy

Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition

Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, What Democracy Is. . .and Is Not

Amartya Sen, Democracy as a Universal Value

Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Toward Consolidated Democracies

Valerie Bunce, Rethinking Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience

Guillermo O'Donnell, Illusions About Consolidation

Thomas Carothers, The End of the Transition Paradigm

Collective Identities

Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Cultural Obstacles to Equal Representation

Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture

Howard Winant, Race in the Twenty-First Century

Harold L. Wilensky, Migration and Politics: Explaining Variation Among Rich Democracies in Recent Nativist Protest

Walker Connor, A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is a. . .

Vali Nasr, Lessons from the Muslim World

Political Institutions and Public Policies

Alfred Stepan, with Cindy Skach, Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism

Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War

Benjamin Reilly, Electoral Systems for Divided Societies

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Stepsisters: Feminist Movement Activism in Different Institutional Spaces

Steven Sanderson, The Future of Conservation

S. Laurel Weldon, Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National Comparison

Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

Dick Howard, After September 11th: Chances for a Left Foreign Policy

Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein, Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Sidney Tarrow, A Movement Society?

Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

Bill McKibben, An Alternative to Progress

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