MODERN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: APPROACHES, METHODS AND ISSUESPHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 1 de jan. de 1998 - 316 páginas Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate students offering comparative politics as a compulsory course, this finely integrated text is by far the most comprehensive, yet concise and critical analysis of the contending approaches, methods, and models and the theory-building efforts made in the second half of this century. The book provides a lucid and up-to-date presentation of the ramifications of the governmental process and political dynamics, issues and problems relating to the structure, function, process and operation of governmental and political organizations in a genuinely comparative perspective. |
Conteúdo
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A Brief Summary | 21 |
Radical Approaches in Comparative | 28 |
H The Comparative Method and the Nature of Comparative Analysis | 34 |
A Ramifications of the Governmental Process | 44 |
Nature and Concept of the Political Process | 77 |
Definition and Salient Elements | 96 |
Constitutions and Constitutionalism | 109 |
B Interest Group Dynamics | 188 |
The Electoral Process and Voting Behaviour | 199 |
Institutions | 211 |
Patterns Organization Role Issues | 224 |
Organization Functions and Role | 235 |
NonWestern Government and Politics and | 256 |
Latin American and African Political Systems | 263 |
Towards a Framework of Analysis | 269 |
Constitutionmaking and Constitutional Amendment | 116 |
The Problem | 132 |
Control of Political Power | 143 |
Federalism | 150 |
Parties | 179 |
Trends and Prospects | 279 |
Bibliography 285294 | 285 |
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Termos e frases comuns
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