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Comparing Apples and Mangoes : The Overpoliticized State in Developing Countries /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sangmpam, S. N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing apples and mangoes
  • The mischaracterization of Third World experiences
  • Setting the framework: comparing apples and mangoes
  • Politics and overpoliticization
  • Sins of universalism and particularism
  • From the behavioral revolution to modernization theory
  • Democratization by institutional fiat
  • Universalism from the left
  • Particularism and anti-third worldism
  • Particularism in South America, Asia, and Africa
  • Conclusion
  • Overpoliticization: empirical and historical evidence
  • Overpoliticized behaviors in democratic regimes
  • Overpoliticized behaviors in authoritarian regimes
  • Overpoliticized behaviors common to democratic and authoritarian regimes
  • Overpoliticized behaviors in Western countries
  • Conclusion: differences and similarities
  • Overpoliticization : quantitative evidence
  • Data and procedure
  • Results and interpretation
  • Conclusion: differences and similarities
  • Understanding the overpoliticized state
  • Political institutions and the state as effects of politics
  • Compromise-resistant politics and the overpoliticized state
  • The liberal democratic state as the conceptual contrast
  • Basic hypotheses about the overpoliticized state
  • What explains liberal compromise?
  • What explains overpoliticization?
  • Conclusion.