附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-215) and index.
Chapter Introduction -- part Part I Approaches to Comparative Analysis -- chapter 1 States and systems -- part Part II The comparative study of politics -- chapter 2 A synthesis -- chapter 3 State and social institutions -- chapter 4 Political culture -- part Part III State in comparative perspective -- chapter 5 State classifications -- Democratic varieties -- chapter 6 State classifications -- Non-democratic varieties -- part Part IV Society in comparative perspective -- chapter 7 Society classifications -- Democratic varieties -- chapter 8 Society classifications -- Newly democratising polities -- chapter 9 Society classifications -- Non-democratic varieties.
摘要:Understanding Comparative Politics examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. Mehran Kamrava achieves this through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, how they interact and the political cultures within which they operate. , Based on the composition of their institutions and the pattern of relations they have established with their societies, Kamrava broadly categorises states into democratic and non-democratic varieties. He includes new democracies and pseudo-democracies in his first variety. Societies, however, he divides into three general types: democratic polities, found mainly in the first world, are accustomed to the rules and norms of democracy and are characterised by a high level of state-society fusion; newly democratising polities dominate in regions such as South America and Eastern Europe which have undergone processes of democratisation in recent years; while non-democratic societies, in which either a democratic system has not evolved or has not taken root, tend to be found in Africa, parts of Asia and the Middle East. , Understanding Comparative Politics traces the evolution of comparative politics as a discipline and points to the strengths and weaknesses of past and present comparative methodologies. This book will be invaluable for any student of comparative politics wishing to go beyond a straightforward institutional analysis and comparison of a small group of countries.
