Foundations of comparative politics : democracies of the modern world
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Foundations of comparative politics : democracies of the modern world
（Cambridge textbooks in comparative politics）
Cambridge University Press, 2021
4th ed
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "The first edition of this book was published in 2006, before the financial crash of 2008, Obama's election in the USA, Trump's unexpected win in 2016, Brexit, the war in Syria, and the rapid rise of refugees and migrants all over the world. In 2006 many western countries were beginning to register a decline in voting, party identification and political trust but it was too soon to say whether these were temporary fluctuations or the onset of longer-term trends. Some of the large parties of the centre ground were losing support and minor parties were appearing on the scene, but few managed to overtake the weakened major ones. Separatist movements were active all over the world, often many different ones in the same country, but most were small, even tiny, and success was rare. The troubles in Northern Ireland had been calmed by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and Kosovo gained its independence two years later. Nationalist movements were active in Catalonia and Scotland but nowhere near their future
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The State: Origins and Development: 1. The development of the modern state
- 2. States and democracy
- 3. Democratic change
- Part II. The Policy: Structures and Institutions: 4. Constitutions
- 5. Presidential and parliamentary government
- 6. Multi-level government: international, national and sub-national
- 7. Policy making and legislating: executives and legislatures
- 8. Implementation: the public bureaucracy
- Part III. Citizens, Elites and Interest Meditation: 9. Political attitudes and behaviour
- 10. Pressure groups and social movements
- 11. The media
- 12. Voters and elections
- 13. Party government
- Part IV. Policies and Performance: 14. Political ideologies
- 15. Policy making
- 16. Public speaking and public policies
- 17. The future of the democratic state.
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