Constructivism and comparative politics
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Constructivism and comparative politics
(International relations in a constructed world)
M.E. Sharpe, c2002
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work presents an approach to the study of comparative politics that builds on the assumption that political actors and institutions operate within constructed communities of meaning, which in turn interface with other such communities.
Table of Contents
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Theoretical Issues and Overview
- 1. Constructivist Comparative Politics: Foundations and Framework
- 2. Toward a Constructivist Comparative Politics
- 3. Globalization, the Comparative Method, and Comparing Constructions
- 4. The Socially Constructed Contexts of Comparative Politics*
- Part II: Case Studies
- 5. The Role of the State in Ethnic Conflict: A Constructivist Reassessment
- 6. Transnational Flows, Legitimacy, and Syncretic Democracy in Benin
- 7. Trading Culture: Identity and Culture Industry Trade Policy in the United States, Canada, and the European Union
- 8. The West Is the Best: Occidentalism and Postwar German Reconstruction
- Index
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