Introducing comparative politics : concepts and cases in context /: concepts and cases in context. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Orvis, Carol Ann Drogus.
• Authors: Orvis, Stephen Walter, 1959-; Drogus, Carol Ann
• Contents: Part I: A Framework for Understanding Comparative Politics; Chapter 1: Introduction; Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It?; Three Key Questions in Comparative Politics; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 2: The Modern State; Characteristics of the Modern State; Historical Origins of Modern States; Strong, Weak, and Failed States; Case Studies of State Formation; Case Study: Germany: The First Modern Welfare State; Case Study: Japan: Determined Sovereignty; Case Study: United Kingdom: The Long Evolution Of A Strong State; Case Study: The United States: A Consciously Crafted State; Case Study: Mexico: Challenges To Internal Sovereignty; Case Study: China: Economic Legitimacy Over Political Reform; Case Study: Brazil: A Moderately Strong, and Now Legitimate, Modern State; Case Study: India: Enduring Democracy In A Moderately Weak State; Case Study: Russia: Strong External Sovereignty with Weak Rule of Law; Case Study: Iran: Claiming Legitimacy Via Theocracy; Case Study: Nigeria: An Extremely Weak State; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 3: States, Citizens, and Regimes; Citizens and Civil Society; Regimes, Ideologies, and Citizens; Case Study: United Kingdom: “Cradle of Democracy”; Case Study: Russia: The First Self-Proclaimed Communist Regime; Case Study: Germany: Rise of the Nazi Party and a Totalitarian State; Case Study: Brazil: A Modernizing Authoritarian Regime in Military Form, 1964–1985; Case Study: Nigeria: A Personalist Regime in Uniform, 1993–1998; Case Study: Mexico: Electoral Authoritarianism under the PRI; Case Study: The Islamic Republic of Iran: Theocratic State, 1979–; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 4: States and Identity; Understanding Identity; The Policy Debate; Nations, Nationalism, and Immigration; Case Study: Nationalism in Germany; Ethnicity; Case Study: The Evolving Role of Ethnicity in Nigeria; Race; Case Study: Racial Politics in the United States; Social Class; Case Study: The United Kingdom: Evolving Class Politics in a Class-divided Society; Religion: Recognition, Autonomy, and the Secular State; Case Study: India: Secularism in a Religious and Religiously Plural Society; Gender and Sexual Orientation: The Continuing Struggle for Recognition, Social Status, and Representation; Case Study: Iran: Women’s Social Gains, Political and Cultural Restrictions, and Islamic Feminism; Case Study: Brazil: LGBTQ Rights in a New Democracy; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Part II: Political Systems and How They Work; Chapter 5: Governing Institutions in Democracies; Executives and Legislatures; Case Study: Parliamentary Rule in Britain and India; Case Study: Presidentialism in the United States and Brazil; Case Study: Russia: Semipresidentialism in a New Democracy with Weak Institutions; Comparing Executive-Legislative Institutions; Judiciary; Case Study: The Judiciary: Brazil; Bureaucracy; Case Study: Bureaucratic Control and Corruption: Japan; Federalism; Case Study: Federalism: Mexico, India, and Russia; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 6: Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies; The Electoral System; Formal Institutions: Political Parties and Party Systems; Civil Society; Case Studies in Participation and Representation; Case Study: The United Kingdom: SMD/FPTP, Two Parties, and Pluralism; Case Study: Germany: A Multiparty System and Neocorporatism under Threat; Case Study: Japan: From Dominant-Party to Two-Party System?; Case Study: Brazil: Parties and Civil Society in a Young Democracy; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Studies; Web Resources; Chapter 7: Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution; Framing Contentious Politics; Case Study: The United States: The Tea Party and the Resistance; Political Violence; Case Study: Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion; Case Study: Nigeria: Boko Haram and Terrorism; Revolution; Case Study: Revolution: China and Iran; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 8: Authoritarian Institutions; Trends in Authoritarian Rule; The Dictator’s Dilemma: Governing Authoritarian Regimes; Elections, Parties, and Legislatures; Clientelism and Civil Society; Case Study: China: From Communist to Modernizing Authoritarian Rule; Case Study: Russia: Creating an Electoral Authoritarian Regime; Case Study: Iran: A Theocratic, Electoral Authoritarian Regime; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 9: Regime Change; Trends in Regime Change; Regime Change: Transitions to Democracy; Case Study: Mexico: Transition from an Electoral Authoritarian Regime; Case Study: Nigeria: Neopatrimonial Transition; Regime Change: Transitions to Authoritarian Rule; Case Study: Comparing Coups: Brazil and Nigeria; Part III: Political Economy and Policy; Chapter 10: Political Economy of Wealth; The Market, Capitalism, and the State; Key Economic Debates; Types of Capitalist Economies; Globalization: A New World Order, or Déjà Vu All Over Again?; States and Markets around the World; Case Study: The United States: The Free-Market Model; Case Study: United Kingdom: Radical Reform in a Liberal Market Economy; Case Study: Germany: Struggling to Reform a Coordinated Market Economy; Case Study: Japan: The Developmental State and Its Crisis; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 11: Political Economy of Development; What Is “Development”?; Development and Globalization; The Development Debate; Case Studies in Development; Case Study: Mexico: From Protectionism to Neoliberalism; Case Study: China: An Emerging Powerhouse; Case Study: India: Development and Democracy; Case Study: Iran: Struggling with the Blessings of Oil; Case Study: Nigeria: A Weak State, Oil, and Corruption; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; For Further Study; Web Resources; Chapter 12: Public Policies When Markets Fail: Welfare, Health, and the Environment; “Welfare”: Social Policy in Comparative Perspective; Case Study: Germany: Reforming The Christian Democratic Welfare State; Case Study: The United States: Reforming the Liberal Welfare State; Case Study: Brazil: Starting a Welfare State in a Developing Economy; Health Care and Health Policy; Case Study: Germany: Pioneer of Modern Health Policy; Case Study: United Kingdom: Reforming the NHS; Case Study: U.S. Health Policy: Trials and Tribulations of the Market Model; Environmental Problems and Policy; Case Study: The United States: Pioneer That Lost Its Way?; Case Study: China: Searching for Sustainable Development; Conclusion; Key Concepts; Works Cited; Resources for Further Study; Web Resources; Glossary; Index;
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (648 pages)
• Subjects: 320.3; Comparative government; Comparative government -- Case studies; Comparative government; Vergleichende Regierungslehre; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781544374437; 1544374437
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