Comparing Political Regimes : A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Third Edition /
"The third edition is thoroughly revised and updated. It now incorporates the two new countries that have appeared since the last edition - Kosovo and South Sudan - and covers the regime changes that have occurred in many countries, including the liberalization (but not yet actual democratizati...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beaconsfield, Quebec :
Canadian Electronic Library,
2013.
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Edición: | Third edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Development and Political Development
- 3. State Effectiveness and Political Economy
- 4. Electoral Democracies, Liberal Democracies, and Autocracies
- 5. Factors Conducive to Democracy
- 6. Institutional Variations of Democracies
- 7. Electoral Systems, Party Systems, and Government Formations in Democracies
- 8. Overall Centralization versus Decentralization in Democracies
- 9. Varieties of Autocracies: Totalitarianism, Sultanism, and Authoritarianism
- 10. Democratic Transitions, Consolidations, and Breakdowns
- 11. Postscript: Democracies and Autocracies in the Future.