Contents
- 1 What Is Comparative Politics?
- Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics: An Introduction from Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure
- Charles A. Lave and James G. March, Observation, Speculation, and Modeling from An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
- 2 The State
- Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation
- Mark Juergensmeyer, The New Religious State
- Jefrey Herbst, War and the State in Africa
- Robert I. Rotberg, The New Nature of Nation-State Failure
- 3 Nations and Society
- Eric Hobsbawm, Nationalism from The Age of Revolution
- The Economist, The Global Menace of Local Strife
- Paul Collier, Ethnic Diversity: An Economic Analysis
- Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?
- Amartya Sen, Civilizational Imprisonments: How to Misunderstand Everybody in the World
- 4 Political Economy
- Adam Smith, from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- David Ricardo, On Foreign Trade, from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- The Economist, Trade Winds
- The Economist, The Hidden Cost of Taxes
- Douglass C. North, Institutions
- Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote, Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?
- 5 Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism
- Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Modern Nondemocratic Regimes, from Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
- Larry Diamond, Thinking about Hybrid Regimes
- Jack Snyder and Karen Ballentine, Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas
- M. Steven Fish, Islam and Authoritarianism
- 6 Democracy
- Fareed Zakaria, A Brief History of Human Liberty, from The Future of Freedom
- Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not
- Arend Lijphart, Constitutional Choices for New Democracies
- Robert Putnam, Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America
- Sheri Berman, Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
- 7 Advanced Democracies
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Author’s Introduction from Democracy in America
- Seymour Martin Lipset, Economic Development and Democracy from Political Man
- Maurice Duverger, The Number of Parties
- John D. Huber and G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy
- The Economist, Is Government Disappearing?
- 8 Communism and Post-Communism
- Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Adam Przeworski, A Prologue: The Fall of Communism, from Democracy and the Market
- Valerie Bunce, Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Post-Communist Experience
- Lucien W. Pye, Traumatized Political Cultures: The After Effects of Totalitarianism in China and Russia
- Ian Buruma, What Beijing Can Learn from Moscow
- 9 Less-Developed and Newly Industrializing Countries
- William Easterly, To Help the Poor from The Elusive Quest for Growth
- Lant Pritchet, Divergence, Big Time
- The Economist, Liberty’s Great Advance
- Paul Collier and Jan Guning, Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?
- Robert J. Barro, Democracy: A Recipe for Growth?
- Adam Przeworski et al., Political Regimes and Economic Growth from Democracy and Development
- 10 Globalization
- Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?
- Stanley Hofman, Clash of Globalizations
- James K. Galbraith, A Perfect Crime: Inequality in the Age of Globalization
- Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Globalization’s Democratic Deficit
- Richard Florida, The World Is Spiky: Globalization Has Changed the Economic Playing Field, but Hasn’t Leveled It
- The Economist, Grinding the Poor
- 11 Political Violence
- Theda Skocpol, France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions
- Martha Crenshaw, The Causes of Terrorism
- Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, Occidentalism
- Jack A. Goldstone, States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations from Understanding September 11
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