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• Title
• Copyright
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Illustrations and Features
• Preface
• Guide to the Twelfth Edition
• Guide to Learning Features
• Guide to the Website
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1: Principles
• 1. Government and politics
• Understanding government and politics
• The benefits of comparison
• Government and governance
• Politics, power and authority
• Regimes and political systems
• 2. Making comparisons
• Understanding comparison
• Origins and evolution
• Choosing cases
• Choosing methods
• The challenges of comparison
• 3. States and nations
• Understanding states
• Origins and evolution
• The diversity of states
• Understanding nations
• The future of the state
• 4. Political culture
• Understanding political culture
• From The Civic Culture to post-materialism
• From cultures to civilizations
• Political trust
• Political culture in authoritarian regimes
• 5. Democratic rule
• Understanding democratic rule
• Democratic regime types
• Origins and evolution
• Forms of democratic rule
• Democracies and rights
• The future of democratic rule
• 6. Authoritarian rule
• Understanding authoritarian rule
• Authoritarian regime types
• Origins and evolution
• Forms of authoritarian rule
• The political impact of corruption
• The future of authoritarian rule
• Part 2: Institutions
• 7. Constitutions and courts
• Understanding constitutions
• Origins and evolution
• The role of courts
• The role of the judiciary
• Constitutions and courts in authoritarian regimes
• 8. Executives
• Understanding executives
• Presidential executives
• Parliamentary executives
• Semi-presidential executives
• Executives in authoritarian regimes
• 9. Legislatures
• Understanding legislatures
• Origins and evolution
• One chamber or two?
• Representatives and their work
• Legislatures in authoritarian regimes
• 10. Bureaucracies
• Understanding bureaucracies
• Origins and evolution
• How bureaucracies are organized
• How bureaucrats are recruited
• Bureaucracies in authoritarian regimes
• 11. Sub-national government
• Understanding sub-national government
• Unitary systems
• Federal systems
• Local government
• Sub-national government in authoritarian regimes
• 12. The media
• Understanding the media
• Origins and evolution
• Comparing media freedom
• Social media and the post-truth world
• The media in authoritarian regimes
• Part 3: Processes
• 13. Political participation
• Understanding political participation
• Patterns of participation
• Voting
• Public opinion
• Political participation in authoritarian regimes
• 14. Elections
• Understanding elections
• Legislative elections
• Executive elections
• Referendums and initiatives
• Voter turnout
• Elections in authoritarian regimes
• 15. Political parties
• Understanding political parties
• Origins and evolution
• Party systems
• Party organization
• Political parties in authoritarian regimes
• 16. Interest groups
• Understanding interest groups
• Origins and evolution
• Types and methods
• The dynamics of interest groups
• Interest groups in authoritarian regimes
• 17. Public policy
• Understanding public policy
• Models of the policy process
• Comparing policy styles
• Policy diffusion and convergence
• Public policy in authoritarian regimes
• 18. Political economy
• Understanding political economy
• Origins and evolution
• Comparative political economy
• The welfare state
• Political economy in authoritarian regimes
• Bibliography
• Index