Alfred Stepan

Arguing Comparative Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The incentive systems and political practices of the three macro constitutional frameworks for democratic government - parliamentarianism, presidentialism, and semi-presidentialism - are compared and contrasted.

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Assembling articles by one of the foremost scholars in comparative politics, this volume covers the important works and ideas in the field from the last thirty years, most notably the nature of contemporary democracy and its prospects. It explores state and society, constructing polities, and varieties of democracies; contains articles on civil society, political society, economic society, and a usable state; and compares and contrasts the incentive systems and political practices of parliamentarianism, presidentialism, and semi-presidentialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 160mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780199242702
• ISBN-10: 0199242704
• Artikelnr.: 21223321

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Reflections on 'Problem Selection' in Comparative
Politics
* I. The State and Society
* 1: The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role
Expansion
* 2: Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and 'Organic Statist'
Approaches to the State
* 3: State Power and the Strength of Civil Society in the Southern Cone
of Latin America
* 4: Military Politics in Three Polity Arenas: Civil Society, Political
Society, and the State
* II. Constructing and Deconstructing Polities: Contexts, Capacities
and Identities
* 5: Paths Toward Redemocratization: Theoretical and Comparative
Considerations
* 6: Political Crafting of Democratic Consolidation or Destruction:
European and South American Comparisons (with Juan J. Linz)
* 7: On the Tasks of a Democratic Opposition
* 8: Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory
* 9: Modern Multi-National Democracies: Transcending a Gellnerian
Oxymoron
* 10: Political Identities and Electoral Sequences: Spain, the Soviet
Union, and Yugoslavia (with Juan J. Linz)
* 11: The World s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the Twin
Tolerations
* III. The Meta-frameworks of Democratic Governance and Democratic
States
* 12: Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation:
Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism (with Cindy Skach)
* 13: The French Fifth Republic: A Model for Import? Reflections on
Poland and Brazil (with Ezra N. Suleiman)
* 14: Toward Consolidated Democracies (with Juan J. Linz)
* 15: Toward a New Comparative Analysis of Democracy and Federalism:
'Demos Constraining' and 'Demos Enabling' Federations