Description
Book SynopsisBy revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development,
Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country''s unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.
- Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development
- Reveals that democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country''s unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances
- Applies theories and principles relating to the promotion of the development of democracy to the contemporary case studies
Table of Contents1 Introduction: Comparative Politics and Democracy.
2 Democracy and Democratization in Historical Perspective.
3 Economics and Political Development.
4 Political Culture and Ethnopolitics.
5 Social Structure and Politics.
6 Democratization and the Global Environment.
7 Electoral Systems.
8 Legislatures and Executives.
9 Comparative Judicial Politics and the Territorial Arrangement of the Political System.
10 Conclusion: Principles in Application.
Index.
