Comparative politics : an institutional and cross-national approach
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Comparative politics : an institutional and cross-national approach
Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008
5th ed
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Description
For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Comparative Politics, World Politics, as well as Introduction to Politics with a comparative focus.
Written in aclear, jargon-free style, Comparative Politics emphasizes political institutions and behavior-rather than on abstract conceptual frameworks. This approach makes the text more accessible to introductory students than most other texts on comparative politics. It features both a cross-national approach which focuses helping students develop develop a comparative understanding of the types of institutions (e.g., constitutions, executives, legislatures, political parties, etc.)-as well as a country-by-country approach that examines those institutions within the contexts of eight different countries. This approach allows students to develop the ability to look how all the "pieces" fit together in various countries.
Table of Contents
I. Comparative Political Analysis: An Introduction
II. Constitutions and Ideologies
III. Political and Economic Development
IV. Legislatures and Legislative Structures
V. The Executive
VI. Judiciaries and the Legal Order
VII. Interest Groups, Political Parties
VIII. The Individual and the Political Environment
Part II: Area Studies
IX. The British Political System
X. The French Political System
XI. The German Political System
XII. The Japanese Political System
XIII. The Mexican Political System
XIV. The Nigerian Political System
XV. The Russian Political System
XVI. The Indian Political System
XVII. Comparative Political Analysis: A Concluding Perspective
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