Table of Contents

PART ONE
CONCEPTS AND CRITICALTHINKING

1. COMPARATIVE POLITICS: WHAT IS IT? WHY STUDY IT?
2. MAJOR TOPICS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
3. CRITICAL THINKINGABOUT POLITICS: ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE—THE LOGIC OF HYPOTHESIS TESTING
4. POWER
5. THE STATE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS
6. STATES AND NATIONS: NATIONALISM—NATION BUILDING SUPRANATIONALISM
7. DEMOCRACY: WHAT IS IT?
8. DEMOCRACY: HOW DOES IT WORK? STATE INSTITUTIONS AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
9. DEMOCRACY: WHAT DOES IT TAKE? TEN CONDITIONS
10. CONDITIONS FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ
11. PEOPLE AND POLITICS: PARTICIPATION IN DEMOCRACIES AND NONDEMOCRACIES
12. POLITICAL CULTURE
13. IDEOLOGY
14. POLITICAL ECONOMY: LAISSEZ-FAIRE—CENTRAL PLANNING—MIXED ECONOMIES—WELFARE STATES
15. THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT

PART TWO
COUNTRIES AND LEADERS

16. THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
17. FRANCE
18. GERMANY
19. JAPAN Dean W. Collinwood
20. RUSSIA
21. CHINA Bruce J. Dickson
22. MEXICO AND BRAZIL Joseph L. Klesner
23. NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA Timothy D. Sisk

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