Download or read book Comparative Political Dynamics written by Dankwart A. Rustow and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Politics written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an evolving global landscape, grasping political systems' nuances is essential. *Comparative Politics*, part of the *Political Science* series, delivers a thorough analysis of governance, power dynamics, and policy outcomes across varied contexts, making it a key resource for understanding global political structures. Highlights: - 1: Comparative Politics - Explore foundational concepts, methodologies, and the significance of comparative politics. - 2: Political Science - Deepen your understanding of political science and its link to comparative politics. - 3: Case Study - Learn how case studies illuminate broader political phenomena. - 4: Democratization - Examine the processes and challenges in transitioning to democratic systems. - 5: Arend Lijphart - Discover Lijphart's contributions to democracy and institutional design. - 6: Modernization Theory - Analyze how economic and social development affect political change. - 7: Barrington Moore Jr. - Study Moore's work on the social origins of dictatorship and democracy. - 8: Theda Skocpol - Understand Skocpol's theories on state structures and social revolutions. - 9: Neil Smelser - Delve into Smelser's research on social change and its relevance. - 10: Juan José Linz - Explore Linz's research on authoritarianism and democratic breakdowns. - 11: Adam Przeworski - Learn about Przeworski's insights on democracy and economic development. - 12: Historical Institutionalism - Investigate the role of historical institutionalism in shaping political outcomes. - 13: Guillermo O'Donnell - Examine O'Donnell's work on bureaucratic authoritarianism and democratic transitions. - 14: Gabriel Almond - Discover Almond's contributions to political culture. - 15: Gerardo L. Munck - Understand Munck's methodological rigor in comparative research. - 16: Alfred Stepan - Study Stepan's insights into the state, democracy, and religion. - 17: David Collier - Explore Collier's work on methodology and concept formation. - 18: Philippe C. Schmitter - Learn about Schmitter's theories on corporatism and democracy transitions. - 19: Critical Juncture Theory - Understand the significance of critical juncture theory in political transformations. - 20: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy - Investigate the social roots of political regimes. - 21: Comparative Federalism - Explore variations and implications of federal systems. This book offers structured insights into comparative politics, making it invaluable for professionals, students, and enthusiasts seeking to enhance their understanding of global political systems.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Two Party Politics written by Alan Ware and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter. It focuses on three major aspects of change in two-party systems: (i) why occasionally major parties ( such as the British Liberals) collapse; (ii) why collapsed parties sometimes survive as minor parties, and sometimes do not; and (iii) what determines why, and how, major parties will ally themselves with minor parties in order to maximize their chances of winning. With respect to the first aspect it is argued that major parties are advantaged by two factors: the resources they have accumulated already, and their occupying role similar to that called by Thomas Schelling a "focal arbiter". Consequently, party collapse is rare. When it has occurred in nation states it is the result of a major party having to fight opposition on "two separate fronts". The survival of a collapsed party depends largely on its internal structure; when a party has linked closely the ambitions of politicians at different levels of office, party elimination is more likely. The main arena in which agency is significant - that is, when leadership is possible, including the politician acting as heresthetician - is in the re-building of coalitions. This is necessary for maximizing the chances of a party winning, but, for various reasons, coalitions between major and minor parties are usually difficult to construct. Comparative Politics is a series for scholars and students of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editor is David M. Farrell, Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Head of School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
Download or read book MODERN COMPARATIVE POLITICS written by SAMIRENDRA N. RAY and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Policy Dynamics written by Frank R. Baumgartner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While governmental policies and institutions may remain more or less the same for years, they can also change suddenly and unpredictably in response to new political agendas and crises. What causes stability or change in the political system? What role do political institutions play in this process? To investigate these questions, Policy Dynamics draws on the most extensive data set yet compiled for public policy issues in the United States. Spanning the past half-century, these data make it possible to trace policies and legislation, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions over time and across institutions. Some chapters analyze particular policy areas, such as health care, national security, and immigration, while others focus on institutional questions such as congressional procedures and agendas and the differing responses by Congress and the Supreme Court to new issues. Policy Dynamics presents a radical vision of how the federal government evolves in response to new challenges-and the research tools that others may use to critique or extend that vision.
Download or read book Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland written by Niall Ó Dochartaigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international debates over state and nation and contested borders, looking at the dialectic between political action and institutions, examining party politics, ideological struggle and institutional change. It goes beyond the binary approaches to Irish politics and looks at the deep shifts associated with major socio-political changes, such as immigration, gender equality and civil society activism. Interdisciplinary in approach, it includes contributions from across history, law, sociology and political science and draws on a rich body of knowledge and original research data. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of Irish Politics, Society and History, British Politics, Peace and Conflict studies, Nationalism, and more broadly to European Politics.
Download or read book Patronal Politics written by Henry E. Hale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just regular, predictable phases in longer-term cyclic dynamics - patronal politics. This is shown through in-depth narratives of the post-1991 political history of all post-Soviet polities that are not in the European Union. This book also includes chapters on czarist and Soviet history and on global patterns.
Download or read book Three Models of Opinion Dynamics written by Mary Layton Atkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element develops an explanation of how and why all public policy preferences move over time.
Download or read book Inside Countries written by Agustina Giraudy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparative politics.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Modernization written by Cyril Edwin Black and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparing Public Policies written by Jessica R. Adolino and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining a conceptual discussion of policy-making with an examination of seven policy areas, the authors show how politics - in the realm of the environment, education, taxation, economics, immigration, health care and social welfare - shapes policy choices.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Democratization written by Geoffrey Pridham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic comparison of three sets of democratization cases in Europe since 1945 (post-war Italy and West Germany; Southern Europe from the mid-1970s; and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s), this book highlights diversities of the historical context, political experience, democratic traditions, economic development and cultural background. Pridham views the democratization process as a whole, not just as either democratic transition or subsequent regime consolidation, as is the case with much of the literature on this subject, and, while his major concern is political regime change, other forms of transformation, such as economic or state-building, are included where these are especially important. He uses the rich diversity of the European experience in this area to apply an 'interactive dynamics' theory of democratization and proposes this as a means of overcoming the deficiencies of existing theories, which have proved inadequate for explaining the ongoing democratization and transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe in particular.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Policy Change in Comparative Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Political Elites in Latin America written by Manuel Alcántara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents in-depth analyses of the data gathered for 26 years by the Political Elites of Latin America project (PELA), the most comprehensive database about the topic in the world. Since 1994, PELA has conducted around 9,000 personal interviews with representative samples of the Legislative Powers of 18 Latin American countries, generating a unique resource for the study of political elites in a comparative perspective. Now, this contributed volume brings together studies that dig into the data gathered by PELA to discuss important topics related to the challenges faced by representative democracy in Latin America. After an introductory chapter that presents the potential of the PELA database, the book is structured in two parts. The first addresses in eight chapters important aspects of representative democracy such as political ambition, political trust, satisfaction with democracy, clientelism and the quality of democracy. It then discusses three relevant issues in Latin American political dynamics such as executive-legislative relations, women's participation as representatives, and the meaning of China and the United States in national politics. The second part addresses in five chapters studies of seven national cases that are representative of regional heterogeneity. These chapters aim to examine parliamentarian elites’ attitudes in different political systems with regard to a variety of relevant issues such as institutional trust, satisfaction with democracy, Executive-Legislative relations, clientelism, and gender questions. Furthermore, these chapters intend to evince the evolution of such attitudes in the course of the last two decades. Politics and Political Elites in Latin America: Challenges and Trends will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics in general and, more particularly, to those interested in the challenges faced by representative democracy not only in Latin America, but in many parts of the world.
Download or read book Federal Dynamics written by Arthur Benz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Dynamics aids understanding of how federal systems change over time. It assembles contributions from leading scholars in the field of comparative federalism to discuss the value of different analytical tools and theoretical approaches for exploring the dynamics of federal systems.
Download or read book Comparative Renewables Policy written by Elin Lerum Boasson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies on the political dynamics of the ongoing energy transition in six European countries. While France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom opted for ‘technology-specific’ renewables support mixes, Norway and Sweden embarked on ‘technology-neutral’ support mixes. Differences between the two groups result from variations in domestic political and organizational fields, but developments over time in the European environment also spurred variation. These findings challenge more simplistic and static accounts of Europeanization. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of energy transitions, comparative climate politics, policy theory, Europeanization, European integration and comparative European politics more broadly, as well practitioners with an interest in renewable energy and climate transition. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429198144, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Download or read book An Introduction to Comparative Politics written by Peter Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides students with an overview of the concepts, models and institutions necessary for the comparative study of political systems. It combines a description of the development and classification of political systems with up-to-date analysis of the social environment for politics, the structure and function of political systems, methods of system maintenance and the dynamics of political change. The text is organized and presented in a style accessible to students approaching these topics for the first time, and is illustrated throughout with tables, figures and summary boxes.
