Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Illustrations and Features
• Preface
• Guide to the Twelfth Edition
• Guide to Learning Features
• Guide to the Website
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1: PRINCIPLES
  • 1 Government and politics
    • Understanding government and politics
    • The benefits of comparison
    • Government and governance
    • Politics, power and authority
    • Regimes and political systems
  • 2 Making comparisons
    • Understanding comparison
    • Origins and evolution
    • Choosing cases
    • Choosing methods
    • The challenges of comparison
  • 3 States and nations
    • Understanding states
    • Origins and evolution
    • The diversity of states
    • Understanding nations
    • The future of the state
  • 4 Political culture
    • Understanding political culture
    • From The Civic Culture to post-materialism
    • From cultures to civilizations
    • Political trust
    • Political culture in authoritarian regimes
  • 5 Democratic rule
    • Understanding democratic rule
    • Democratic regime types
    • Origins and evolution
    • Forms of democratic rule
    • Democracies and rights
    • The future of democratic rule
  • 6 Authoritarian rule
    • Understanding authoritarian rule
    • Authoritarian regime types
    • Origins and evolution
    • Forms of authoritarian rule
    • The political impact of corruption
    • The future of authoritarian rule
• PART 2: INSTITUTIONS
  • 7 Constitutions and courts
    • Understanding constitutions
    • Origins and evolution
    • The role of courts
    • The role of the judiciary
    • Constitutions and courts in authoritarian regimes
  • 8 Executives
    • Understanding executives
    • Presidential executives
    • Parliamentary executives
    • Semi-presidential executives
    • Executives in authoritarian regimes
  • 9 Legislatures
    • Understanding legislatures
    • Origins and evolution
    • One chamber or two?
    • Representatives and their work
    • Legislatures in authoritarian regimes
  • 10 Bureaucracies
    • Understanding bureaucracies
    • Origins and evolution
    • How bureaucracies are organized
    • How bureaucrats are recruited
    • Bureaucracies in authoritarian regimes
  • 11 Sub-national government
    • Understanding sub-national government
    • Unitary systems
    • Federal systems
    • Local government
    • Sub-national government in authoritarian regimes
  • 12 The media
    • Understanding the media
    • Origins and evolution
    • Comparing media freedom
    • Social media and the post-truth world
    • The media in authoritarian regimes
• PART 3: PROCESSES
  • 13 Political participation
    • Understanding political participation
    • Patterns of participation
    • Voting
    • Public opinion
    • Political participation in authoritarian regimes
  • 14 Elections
    • Understanding elections
    • Legislative elections
    • Executive elections
    • Referendums and initiatives
    • Voter turnout
    • Elections in authoritarian regimes
  • 15 Political parties
    • Understanding political parties
    • Origins and evolution
    • Party systems
    • Party organization
    • Political parties in authoritarian regimes
  • 16 Interest groups
    • Understanding interest groups
    • Origins and evolution
    • Types and methods
    • The dynamics of interest groups
    • Interest groups in authoritarian regimes
  • 17 Public policy
    • Understanding public policy
    • Models of the policy process
    • Comparing policy styles
    • Policy diffusion and convergence
    • Public policy in authoritarian regimes
  • 18 Political economy
    • Understanding political economy
    • Origins and evolution
    • Comparative political economy
    • The welfare state
    • Political economy in authoritarian regimes
• Bibliography
• Index
• eCopyright

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