Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
A Framework for Analysis
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
ISBN: 978-0-415-13011-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study of the subject.
Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. This is achieved through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, the interactions that occur between them, and the poltical cultures within which they operate. The book also offers a concise and detailed synthesis of existing comparative frameworks that, up to now at least, have encountered analytical shortcomings on their own.
Although analytically different in its arguments and emphasis from the current "Mainstream" genre of literature on comparative politics, the present study is a logical outgrowth of the scholarly works of the last decade or so. It will be essential reading for all students of comparative politics.
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Introduction Part I. Approaches to Comparative Analysis 1. States and Systems: The State, the political system, bringing the state back in Part II. The comparative study of politics 2. A Synthesis: an alternative paradigm 3. State and Social Institutions 4. Political Culture: progenitors of political culture, varieties of political culture, comparative politics then and now Part III. State in Comparative Politics 5. State Classifications: D emocratic Varieties, first world democracies new democracies, pseudo-democracies 6. State Classifications: Non-Democratic Varieties: inclusionary populist regimes, bureaucratic authoritarian dictatorships Part IV. Society in Comparative Perspective 7. Society Classification, Democratic Varieties: developments in culture, democratic political cultures, social institutions 8. Society Clasifications: Newly Democratising Polities: political culture, social institutions 9. Society Classification: Non-Democratic Varieties: political culture, social institutions, state-society relations conclusion
Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study of the subject.
Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. This is achieved through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, the interactions that occur between them, and the poltical cultures within which they operate. The book also offers a concise and detailed synthesis of existing comparative frameworks that, up to now at least, have encountered analytical shortcomings on their own.
Athough analytically different in its arguments and emphasis from the current "Mainstream" genre of literature on comparative politics, the present study is a logical outgrowth of the scholarly works of the last decade or so. It will be essential reading for all students of comparative politics.
Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis through a comparative examination of state and social institutions.
