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Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues

Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues

Wiarda, Howard J.
Skelley, Esther M.

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 0742530353
ISBN13: 9780742530355
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.11
Language: English

Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in the field. Leading scholar Howard J. Wiarda explores its main approaches, including political development, political culture, dependency theory, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, state-society relations, rational choice, and the new institutionalism.

Wiarda addresses many hot issues in the field: Can democracy and human rights be transplanted from one culture to another? Is civil society exportable? What works in the effort to develop the poorer nations and what doesn't? Where are we headed with such frontier research issues as comparative environmental policy, women's rights, and gay rights?

The book concludes with a stimulating discussion of whether the great systems debates of the past (socialism vs. capitalism, democracy vs. authoritarianism) are now over and points to some of the next important study and research frontiers. Students, professors, and general readers will all find Comparative Politics current, provocative, and well written--a truly balanced overview.

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