Constructivism and Comparative Politics

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7656-0861-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

This work presents an approach to the study of comparative politics that builds on the assumption that political actors and institutions operate within constructed communities of meaning, which in turn interface with other such communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Richard T

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editor and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: Theoretical Issues and Overview; 1. Constructivist Comparative Politics: Foundations and Framework; 2. Toward a Constructivist Comparative Politics; 3. Globalization, the Comparative Method, and Comparing Constructions; 4. The Socially Constructed Contexts of Comparative Politics*; Part II: Case Studies; 5. The Role of the State in Ethnic Conflict: A Constructivist Reassessment; 6. Transnational Flows, Legitimacy, and Syncretic Democracy in Benin; 7. Trading Culture: Identity and Culture Industry Trade Policy in the United States, Canada, and the European Union; 8. The West Is the Best: Occidentalism and Postwar German Reconstruction; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel M. Green