MODERN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: APPROACHES, METHODS AND ISSUESPHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 1 ene 1998 - 316 páginas Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate students offering comparative politics as a compulsory course, this finely integrated text is by far the most comprehensive, yet concise and critical analysis of the contending approaches, methods, and models and the theory-building efforts made in the second half of this century. The book provides a lucid and up-to-date presentation of the ramifications of the governmental process and political dynamics, issues and problems relating to the structure, function, process and operation of governmental and political organizations in a genuinely comparative perspective. |
Índice
| 1 | |
A Brief Summary | 21 |
Radical Approaches in Comparative | 28 |
H The Comparative Method and the Nature of Comparative Analysis | 34 |
A Ramifications of the Governmental Process | 44 |
Nature and Concept of the Political Process | 77 |
Definition and Salient Elements | 96 |
Constitutions and Constitutionalism | 109 |
B Interest Group Dynamics | 188 |
The Electoral Process and Voting Behaviour | 199 |
Institutions | 211 |
Patterns Organization Role Issues | 224 |
Organization Functions and Role | 235 |
NonWestern Government and Politics and | 256 |
Latin American and African Political Systems | 263 |
Towards a Framework of Analysis | 269 |
Constitutionmaking and Constitutional Amendment | 116 |
The Problem | 132 |
Control of Political Power | 143 |
Federalism | 150 |
Parties | 179 |
Trends and Prospects | 279 |
Bibliography 285294 | 285 |
Index 295300 | 295 |
Términos y frases comunes
action activity administrative Almond American political analysis approach Asia authority basic behaviour bicameralism British bureaucracy cabinet central centre comparative government comparative politics concept conflict Congress constitutionalism countries David Easton decision-making decisions democracy democratic dominant economic elected electoral emergence executive exercise federal system framework freedom functions fundamental Gabriel Almond German government and politics governmental House Ibid important India individual interest groups judicial review judiciary Karl Deutsch Latin America leadership legislative legislature liberal democracies London major modern organization parliament parliamentary party system pattern policy-making political culture Political Development political parties political power political process political science political system power-holders President pressure groups prime minister Princeton problems relationship represented Republic role rule scholars social socialist society Soviet structure Supreme Court Supreme Soviet theory Third World traditional two-party system underdevelopment University Press USSR vote West Germany Western York
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Página 126 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Página 123 - Assembly after not less than fourteen days' notice of the intention to move it and passed by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of the National Assembly.
Página 26 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Página 40 - The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure: political forms of the class struggle and its...
Página 75 - ... of class struggle, the struggle for production and scientific experiment...
Página 40 - ... also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form. There is an interaction of all these elements in which, amid all the endless host of accidents...
Página 166 - If then the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution and not such ordinary act must govern the case to which they both apply.
Página 242 - The power of courts to declare a statute unconstitutional is subject to two guiding principles of decision which ought never to be absent from judicial consciousness. One is that courts are concerned only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom. The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.
Página 19 - interest group" refers to any group that, on the basis of one or more shared attitudes, makes certain claims upon other groups in the society for the establishment, maintenance, or enhancement of forms of behavior that are implied by the shared attitudes.
Página 179 - Burke who defined party as a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed?