Readings in comparative politics
Subtitle: political challenges and changing agendas
By: [compiled by] Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger.
Contributors: Kesselman, Mark.; Krieger, Joel, 1951-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780618426256
Subjects: Comparative government.
Table of contents: title: The end of history? / Francis Fukuyama; title: The clash of civilizations? / Samuel Huntington; title: Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin Barber; title: War making and state making as organized crime / Charles Tilly; title: Making race and nation: a comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil / Anthony W. Marx; title: The rise of competitive authoritarianism / Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way; title: The fate of the state / Martin Van Creveld; title: Failed states in a world of terror / Robert Rotberg; title: The state and globalization / Saskia Sassen; title: Political economy / Peter Gourevitch; title: The importance of democracy / Amartya Sen; title: Models of capitalism in the new world order / David Coates; title: Stabilization tactics in Latin America: Menem, Cardoso, and the politics of low inflation / Daniel Treisman; title: From north-south to south-south / Robert J.S. Ross and Anita Chan; title: Globalism's discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz; title: Polyarchy: participation and opposition / Robert Dahl; title: What democracy is . . . and is not / Philippe C. Schmmitter and Terry Lynn Karl; title: Democracy as a universal value / Amartya Sen; title: Toward consolidated democracies / Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan; title: Rethinking democratization: lessons from the postcommunist experience / Valerie Bunce; title: Illusion about consolidation / Guillermo O'Donnell; title: The end of the transition paradigm / Thomas Carothers.; title: Cultural obstacles to equal representation / Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart; title: The claims of culture / Seyla Benhabib; title: Race in the twenty-first century / Howard Winant; title: Migration and politics: explaining variation among rich democracies in recent nativist protest / Harold L. Wilensky; title: A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group, is a . . . / Walker Connor; title: Lessons from the Muslim world / Vali Nasr; title: Constitutional frameworks and democratic consolidation: parliamentarianism versus presidentialism / Alfred Stepan, with Cindy Skach; title: Democratic transitions, institutional strength, and war / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder; title: Electoral systems for divided societies / Benjamin Reilly; title: Stepsisters: feminist movement activism in different institutional spaces / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein; title: The future of conservation / Steven Sanderson; title: Protest, policy, and the problem of violence against women: a cross-national comparison / S. Laurel Weldon; title: After September 11th: chances for a left foreign policy / Dick Howard; title: Democratic capitalism at the crossroads / Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein; title: A movement society? / Sidney Tarrow; title: Bowling alone: America's declining social capital / Robert D. Putnam; title: The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad / Fareed Zakaria; title: An alternative to progress / Bill McKibben.