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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393937542
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393937541
  • Author:  Patrick H. O’Neil, Karl Fields, Don Share

Cases for Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, India, Brazil, Iran, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies the conceptual framework developed in the core textbook, Essentials of Comparative Politics, across countries with a consistent organization that integrates concepts and cases, facilitates comparison, and aids understanding.

 

Table of Content:

  1. Part I: A Framework for Understanding Comparative Politics
  2. Chapter 1: Introduction
  3. Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It?
  4. What Is Comparative Politics?
  5. Why Study Comparative Politics?
  6. How Do Comparativists Study Politics?
  7. Three Key Questions in Comparative Politics
  8. What Explains Political Behavior?
  9. Who Rules?
  10. Where and Why?
  11. Plan of the Book
  12. Key Concepts
  13. Works Cited
  14. Resources for Further Study
  15. Web Resources
  16. Chapter 2: The Modern State
  17. Characteristics of the Modern State
  18. Territory
  19. External and Internal Sovereignty
  20. Legitimacy
  21. Bureaucracy
  22. Historical Origins of Modern States
  23. Modern States in Europe
  24. Premodern States Outside Europe
  25. The Export of the Modern State
  26. Strong, Weak, and Failed States
  27. Case Studies of State Formation
  28. The Strongest States
  29. Case Study: Germany: The First Modern Welfare State
  30. Case Study: Japan: Determined Sovereignty
  31. Case Study: United Kingdom: The Long Evolution of a Strong State
  32. Case Study: The United States: A Consciously Crafted State
  33. Moderately Strong States
  34. Case Study: Mexico: Challenges to Internal Sovereignty
  35. Case Study: China: Economic Legitimacy Over Political Reform
  36. Case Study: Brazil: A Moderately Strong and Now Legitimate Modern State
  37. Case Study: India: Enduring Democracy in a Moderately Weak State
  38. Case Study: Russia: Strong External Sovereignty With Weak Rule of Law
  39. The Weakest States
  40. Case Study: Iran: Claiming Legitimacy via Theocracy
  41. Case Study: Nigeria: An Extremely Weak State
  42. Conclusion
  43. Key Concepts
  44. Works Cited
  45. Resources for Further Study
  46. Web Resources
  47. Chapter 3: States, Citizens, and Regimes
  48. Citizens and Civil Society
  49. Regimes, Ideologies, and Citizens
  50. Liberal Democracy
  51. Case Study: United Kingdom: “Cradle of Democracy”
  52. Communism
  53. Case Study: Russia: The First Self-Proclaimed Communist Regime
  54. Fascism
  55. Case Study: Germany: Rise of the Nazi Party and a Totalitarian State
  56. Modernizing Authoritarianism
  57. Case Study: Brazil: A Modernizing Authoritarian Regime in Military Form, 1964–1985
  58. Personalist Regimes
  59. Case Study: Nigeria: A Personalist Regime in Uniform, 1993–1998
  60. Electoral Authoritarianism
  61. Case Study: Mexico: Electoral Authoritarianism Under the PRI
  62. Theocracy
  63. Case Study: The Islamic Republic of Iran: Theocratic State, 1979–
  64. Conclusion
  65. Key Concepts
  66. Works Cited
  67. Resources for Further Study
  68. Web Resources
  69. Chapter 4: States and Identity
  70. Understanding Identity
  71. The Policy Debate
  72. The Demands of Identity Groups
  73. Arguments for Group Rights and Recognition
  74. Arguments Against Group Rights
  75. Nations, Nationalism, and Immigration
  76. Case Study: Nationalism in Germany
  77. Ethnicity
  78. Case Study: The Evolving Role of Ethnicity in Nigeria
  79. Race
  80. Case Study: Racial Politics in the United States
  81. Social Class
  82. Case Study: The United Kingdom: Evolving Class Politics in a Class-Divided Society
  83. Religion: Recognition, Autonomy, and the Secular State
  84. Religion as Group Identity
  85. State Response to Religion: Differing Forms of Secularism
  86. Case Study: India: Secularism in a Religious and Religiously Plural Society
  87. Gender and Sexual Orientation: The Continuing Struggle for Recognition, Social Status, and Representation
  88. Debating Goals
  89. Objectives and Outcomes
  90. Case Study: Iran: Women’s Social Gains, Political and Cultural Restrictions, and Islamic Feminism
  91. Case Study: Brazil: LGBTQ Rights in a New Democracy
  92. Conclusion
  93. Key Concepts
  94. Works Cited
  95. Resources for Further Study
  96. Web Resources
  97. Part II: Political Systems and How They Work
  98. Chapter 5: Governing Institutions in Democracies
  99. Executives and Legislatures
  100. Parliamentarism: The Westminster Model
  101. Case Study: Parliamentary Rule in Britain and India
  102. Presidential Systems: The Separation of Powers
  103. Case Study: Presidentialism in the United States and Brazil
  104. Semipresidentialism: The Hybrid Compromise
  105. Case Study: Russia: Semipresidentialism in a New Democracy With Weak Institutions
  106. Comparing Executive–Legislative Institutions
  107. Accountability
  108. Policymaking
  109. Stability
  110. Judiciary
  111. Judicial Review and the “Judicialization” of Politics
  112. Judicial Independence and Institutional Strength
  113. Case Study: The Judiciary: Brazil
  114. Bureaucracy
  115. Bureaucracy and Corruption
  116. Case Study: Bureaucratic Control and Corruption: Japan
  117. Federalism
  118. Why Countries Adopt Federalism
  119. Federalism and Accountability
  120. Federalism and Minority Rights
  121. Trends in Federalism
  122. Case Study: Federalism: Mexico, India, and Russia
  123. Conclusion
  124. Key Concepts
  125. Works Cited
  126. Resources for Further Study
  127. Web Resources
  128. Chapter 6: Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies
  129. The Electoral System
  130. Single-Member Districts: “First-Past- the-Post” and Majoritarian Voting
  131. Proportional Representation
  132. Mixed, or Semiproportional, Systems
  133. Formal Institutions: Political Parties and Party Systems
  134. Party Systems: Number and Strength
  135. Origins of Party Systems
  136. Political Parties: Members, Strength, and Ideology
  137. A Crisis of Party Democracy?
  138. Civil Society
  139. Government–Interest Group Interaction: Two Models
  140. Case Studies in Participation and Representation
  141. Case Study: The United Kingdom: SMD/FPTP, Two Parties, and Pluralism
  142. Case Study: Germany: A Multiparty System and Neocorporatism Under Threat
  143. Case Study: Japan: From Dominant Party to Two-Party System?
  144. Case Study: India: From Dominant Party to Multiparty Democracy
  145. Case Study: Brazil: Parties and Civil Society in a Young Democracy
  146. Conclusion
  147. Key Concepts
  148. Works Cited
  149. Resources for Further Study
  150. Web Resources
  151. Chapter 7: Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution
  152. Framing Contentious Politics
  153. Why Contentious Politics Happen
  154. How Contentious Politics Happen
  155. What Effects Do Contentious Politics Have?
  156. Case Study: The United States: The Tea Party and the Resistance
  157. Political Violence
  158. Theories of Political Violence
  159. Civil War
  160. Terrorism
  161. Case Study: Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion
  162. Case Study: Nigeria: Boko Haram and Terrorism
  163. Revolution
  164. Types of Revolution
  165. Why Do Revolutions Happen?
  166. Case Study: Revolution: China and Iran
  167. Conclusion
  168. Key Concepts
  169. Works Cited
  170. Resources for Further Study
  171. Web Resources
  172. Chapter 8: Authoritarian Institutions
  173. Trends in Authoritarian Rule
  174. The Dictator’s Dilemma: Governing Authoritarian Regimes
  175. Elections, Parties, and Legislatures
  176. Clientelism and Civil Society
  177. Case Study: China: From Communist to Modernizing Authoritarian Rule
  178. Case Study: Russia: Creating an Electoral Authoritarian Regime
  179. Case Study: Iran: A Theocratic, Electoral Authoritarian Regime
  180. Conclusion
  181. Key Concepts
  182. Works Cited
  183. Resources for Further Study
  184. Web Resources
  185. Chapter 9: Regime Change
  186. Trends in Regime Change
  187. Regime Change: Transitions to Democracy
  188. Transitions to Democracy, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Backsliding
  189. Explaining Democratization, Consolidation, and Backsliding
  190. Case Study: Mexico: Transition From an Electoral Authoritarian Regime
  191. Case Study: Nigeria: Neopatrimonial Transition
  192. Regime Change: Transitions to Authoritarian Rule
  193. Military Coups
  194. Revolution
  195. Authoritarianization
  196. Case Study: Comparing Coups: Brazil and Nigeria
  197. Case Study: Russia: Transition to an Electoral Authoritarian Regime
  198. Conclusion
  199. Key Concepts
  200. Works Cited
  201. Resources for Further Study
  202. Web Resources
  203. Part III: Political Economy and Policy
  204. Chapter 10: Political Economy of Wealth
  205. The Market, Capitalism, and the State
  206. Capitalism
  207. Essential Roles
  208. Beneficial Roles
  209. Politically Generated Roles
  210. Key Economic Debates
  211. Keynesianism
  212. Neoliberalism
  213. Keynesianism Versus Neoliberalism: An Ongoing Debate
  214. Types of Capitalist Economies
  215. Liberal Market Economies
  216. Coordinated Market Economies
  217. Globalization: A New World Order or Déjà Vu All Over Again?
  218. A Brave New World?
  219. Causes of Globalization
  220. Globalization and the European Union
  221. Political Responses to Globalization
  222. Globalization and Inequality
  223. States and Markets Around the World
  224. Case Study: The United States: The Free-Market Model
  225. Case Study: United Kingdom: Radical Reform in a Liberal Market Economy
  226. Case Study: Germany: Struggling to Reform a Coordinated Market Economy
  227. Case Study: Japan: The Developmental State and Its Crisis
  228. Conclusion
  229. Key Concepts
  230. Works Cited
  231. Resources for Further Study
  232. Web Resources
  233. Chapter 11: Political Economy of Development
  234. What Is “Development”?
  235. Development and Globalization
  236. The Development Debate
  237. The ISI Era
  238. The SAP Era
  239. The Developmental State
  240. The Pink Tide in Latin America
  241. The Bottom Billion
  242. Regime Type and Development Success
  243. Case Studies in Development
  244. Case Study: Mexico: From Protectionism to Neoliberalism
  245. Case Study: China: An Emerging Powerhouse
  246. Case Study: India: Development and Democracy
  247. Case Study: Iran: Struggling With the Blessings of Oil
  248. Case Study: Nigeria: A Weak State, Oil, and Corruption
  249. Conclusion
  250. Key Concepts
  251. Works Cited
  252. Resources For Further Study
  253. Web Resources
  254. Chapter 12: Public Policies When Markets Fail: Welfare, Health, and the Environment
  255. “Welfare”: Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
  256. Types of Social Policy
  257. Types of Welfare States
  258. The Development, Evolution, and Crises(?) of Welfare States
  259. Comparing Welfare States
  260. Social Policy in the Global South
  261. Case Study: Germany: Reforming the Christian Democratic Welfare State
  262. Case Study: The United States: Reforming the Liberal Welfare State
  263. Case Study: Brazil: Starting a Welfare State in a Developing Economy
  264. Health Care and Health Policy
  265. Health Care and Market Failure
  266. Health Care Systems
  267. Common Problems
  268. Case Study: Germany: Pioneer of Modern Health Policy
  269. Case Study: United Kingdom: Reforming the NHS
  270. Case Study: U.S. Health Policy: Trials and Tribulations of the Market Model
  271. Environmental Problems and Policy
  272. The Environment and Market Failure
  273. Risk and Uncertainty
  274. Policy Options
  275. Climate Change
  276. Case Study: The United States: Pioneer That Lost Its Way?
  277. Case Study: China: Searching for Sustainable Development
  278. Conclusion
  279. Key Concepts
  280. Works Cited
  281. Resources for Further Study
  282. Web Resources
  283. Glossary
  284. Index

 

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