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• Title
• Copyright
• Detailed Contents
• A Guide to Comparing Nations
• A Brief Guide to Analyzing Visuals
• Preface
• Part One Introduction
• Chapter1 Governance in the Era of Globalization
• What Is Comparative Politics?
• Challenges: Building Community
• Fostering Economic Development
• Fostering Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties
• The Contribution of Globalization
• What Governments Do
• When Does Government Become the Problem?
• Looking Forward
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 2 Comparative Political Systems
• Why We Compare
• How We Compare
• How We Explain and Predict
• Political Systems: Environment and Interdependence
• Political Systems: Structures and Functions
• An Illustrative Comparison: Regime Change in Russia
• The Policy Level: Performance, Outcome, and Evaluation
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Part Two System, Process, and Policy
• Chapter 3 Political Culture and Political Socialization
• Mapping the Three Levels of Political Culture
• Why Culture Matters
• Political Socialization
• Agents of Political Socialization
• Trends Shaping Contemporary Political Cultures
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 4 Interest Articulation
• Citizen Action
• How Citizens Participate
• Interest Groups
• Civil Society
• Interest Group Systems
• Access to the Influential
• Interest Group Development
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 5 Interest Aggregation: Political Party Systems
• Personal Interest Aggregation
• Institutional Interest Aggregation
• Competitive Party Systems and Interest Aggregation
• Authoritarian Party Systems
• The Military and Interest Aggregation
• Trends in Interest Aggregation
• Significance of Interest Aggregation
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 6 The Art of Governance
• Constitutions and Decision Rules
• Democracy and Authoritarianism
• Separation of Government Powers
• Geographic Distribution of Government Power
• Limitations on Government Power
• Checking the Top Policymakers
• Assemblies
• Political Executives
• The Bureaucracy
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 7 Public Policy
• Government and What It Does
• Public Policy Outputs
• Domestic Policy Outcomes
• International Outcomes
• The Complexity of Policy Choice
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Part Three Country Studies
• Chapter 8 Politics in Britain
• Current Policy Challenges
• The Legacy of History
• The Environment of Politics: One Crown but Five Nations
• The Structure of Government
• Political Culture and Legitimacy
• Political Socialization and Participation
• Political Participation
• Political Recruitment
• Organizing Group Interests
• Party System and Electoral Choice
• Centralized Authority and Decentralized Delivery of Policies
• Policy Performance
• Policy Challenges in a World of Interdependence
• Review Questions
• Internet Resources
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Endnotes
• Chapter 9 Politics in France
• Current Policy Challenges
• A Historical Perspective
• Economy and Society
• The Constitutional Tradition
• Political Culture
• Political Socialization
• Recruitment and Style of Elites
• Interest Groups
• Political Parties
• Patterns of Voting
• Policy Processes
• The State and Territorial Relations
• Performance and Prospects
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 10 Politics in Germany
• Current Policy Challenges
• The Historical Legacy
• Following Two Paths
• Social Forces
• The Institutions and Structure of Government
• Remaking Political Cultures
• Political Learning and Political Communication
• Citizen Participation
• Politics at the Elite Level
• Interest Groups
• Party Government
• The Party System
• The Policymaking Process
• Policy Performance
• Addressing the Policy Challenges
• After the Revolution
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Sources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 11 Politics in Japan
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Origins of the Modern Japanese State
• The Occupation
• Social Conditions
• Political Institutions
• Political Culture and Issue Cleavages
• Political Socialization
• Political Participation and Voting Behavior
• Electoral Systems and Electoral Competition
• The Japanese Party System
• Interest Groups
• The Policymaking Process
• Policy Performance
• Concluding Thoughts about Japanese Politics
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 12 Politics in Russia
• Ensuring Continuity of Leadership
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Legacies
• The Contemporary Constitutional Order
• Russian Political Culture in the Post-Soviet Period
• Political Participation
• Interest Articulation: Statism, Corporatism,and Pluralism
• The Dominant Party Regime
• Russia and the Resource Curse
• Toward the Rule of Law?
• Russia and the International Community
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 13 Politics in China
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Setting
• Social Conditions
• Structure of the Party-State
• Political Socialization
• Political Culture
• Political Participation
• Interest Articulation and Aggregation
• Policymaking and Implementation
• Policy Performance
• Hong Kong
• China and the World
• China’s Political Future
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 14 Politics in Mexico
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Perspectives
• Political Culture
• Mass Political Socialization
• Political Participation
• Political Structure and Institutions
• Recruiting the Political Elite
• Interest Representation and Political Control
• Political Parties
• Government Performance
• Mexico’s Political Future
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 15 Politics in Brazil
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Perspectives
• Economy and Society
• Institutions and Structures of Government
• Political Culture
• Political Recruitment and Political Participation
• Interest Groups
• Political Parties and Elections
• The Policymaking Process
• Policy Performance
• International Relations
• Prospects for the Future
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 16 Politics in Iran
• Current Policy Challenges
• Historical Legacy
• Institutions of the Islamic Republic
• Elections and Parties
• Political Culture
• Political Socialization
• Recruiting the Political Elite
• Interest Articulation and Aggregation
• Policy Formulation
• Policy Outcomes
• Conclusion
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 17 Politics in India
• Current Policy Challenges
• History in the Making of Contemporary Politics
• The “Givens” of Indian Society
• Political Institutions and the Policy Process
• The Federal Structure
• The Articulation of Interests
• The Party System
• Political Culture
• Elections and Participation
• Political Recruitment
• Policy Outputs: Economics, Welfare, and Poverty
• Conclusion: Conflation of Democracy and Development
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 18 Politics in Nigeria
• Current Policy Challenges
• The Effects of History
• Environmental Potential and Limitations
• Political Culture and Subcultures
• Political Socialization
• Political Recruitment
• Political Structure
• Interest Articulation
• Political Participation
• Parties and Elections
• Policy Formation and Implementation
• Nigeria in Africa and in the World
• Prospects for Development
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 19 Politics in the United States
• Current Policy Challenges
• History
• Social Conditions
• The Constitutional System
• Political Culture and Socialization
• Political Participation and Recruitment
• Recruitment of Leaders
• Interest Articulation: PACs and Pressure Groups
• The Special Characteristics of American Political Parties
• The Policymaking Process in America
• Policy Performance
• American Exceptionalism: Myth or Reality?
• Conclusion
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Internet Resources
• Endnotes
• Credits
• Index