Comparing political regimes
Subtitle: a thematic introduction to comparative politics
By: Alan Siaroff
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North York, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781442607002; 9781442607675; 9781442607019; 9781442607026
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Textbooks; Comparative government; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Régimes politiques
Description: "Comparing Political Regimes provides a comprehensive assessment of the world?s political systems by outlining and contrasting the aspects of four different regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-liberal autocracies, and closed autocracies.

The third edition is thoroughly revised and updated. It now incorporates the two new countries that have appeared since the last edition - Kosovo and South Sudan - and covers the regime changes that have occurred in many countries, including the liberalization (but not yet actual democratization) of the Arab Spring. Extra material has also been added on demography and political economy, especially with regards to economic development, and on secession of regions."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Development and Political Development; title: 3. State Effectiveness and Political Economy; title: 4. Electoral Democracies, Liberal Democracies, and Autocracies; title: 5. Factors Conducive to Democracy; title: 6. Institutional Variations of Democracies; title: 7. Electoral Systems, Party Systems, and Government Formations in Democracies; title: 8. Overall Centralization versus Decentralization in Democracies; title: 9. Varieties of Autocracies: Totalitarianism, Sultanism, and Authoritarianism; title: 10. Democratic Transitions, Consolidations, and Breakdowns; title: 11. Postscript: Democracies and Autocracies in the Future.