Handbook of Global Political Policy

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Handbook of Global Political Policy

Handbook of Global Political Policy

Series:

Public Administration and Public Policy

Published:

July 28, 2000 by CRC Press - 664 Pages

Author(s):

Stuart Nagel, Joyce Nagel Adm, Champaign, Illinois, USA

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Purchasing Options

Hardback

$289.95

ISBN 9780824703561

Cat# DK1627

Features

Incorporates "win-win" analyses to find feasible Super-Optimum Solutions across the political spectrum

Includes more than 1200 lieteratrue references, tables, and drawins

Summary

The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, the Handbook of Global Political Policy utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, this expansive reference compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide.

With contributions by over 30 international policy experts and academicians, the Handbook of Global Political Policy

addresses the dilemma of multiculturalism with solutions sensitive to self-determination, federalization, and nationalization

determines elite acceptance as a key factor in the survival of Russian democracy and investigates from which group the new elite will arise

postulates causes for the breakdown and default of the Indian government, with a case study of the Panchayati Raj System

offers a current perspective on the role of the People's Liberation Army in China's democratization process

details shared concepts of leadership in China and Taiwan

highlights cases of donor-assisted democratization in Africa, and recommends paths of action for international donors

explains why the federal republics of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia had disproportionately greater numbers of critics than defenders

considers the effects of Brazilian institutional arrangements promoting state reform

discusses campaign finance reform in the United States

Supplemented with over 1200 literature references, tables, and drawings, the Handbook of Global Political Policy is an insightful resource for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

General Political Policy
Political Policy: An Introduction
Stuart S. Nagel
Majority Rule and Stability: Where Do We Stand Now?
Hannu Nurmi
Growing Inequalities and Dangers to Democracy in Ultramodern Society: Some Policy Implications
Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Democratization in a Comparative Perspective
Erik Komarov
Democratization in Federal Systems: Integration or Disintegration?
Charles T. Barber

Africa's Political Policy
Theories of Democratization and the Case of Donor-Assisted Democratization in Namibia
Eve Sandberg
Evaluation of Intergovernmental Relationships in South Africa with Specific Reference to Local Authorities
Mike H. Meiring
African Political Reform and International Assistance: What Can and Should Be Done
James S. Wunsch
Elections and the Democratic Project in Africa: Precepts, Practices, and the Future
Said Adejumobi

Asia's Political Policy

New Dimensions in Administrative Reform in Japan
Katsuaki Yamazaki
Regional Voting in New Democracies: The Case of South Korea from a Comparative Perspective
Kisuk Cho
The Military and Democracy in China
George P. Jan
Leadership Conceptions of Local Elites: Across the Taiwan Strait-A Cultural Analysis
Da-chi Liao
Interest Groups in the Philippines After the 1986 People's Power Revolt
Natalia M. L. M. Morales
Development and the Issue of Governance in South Asia: Alternative Strategies
B. M. Jain
Role and Performance of Indian Parliament in the Process of Democratization: A Case Study of Panchayati Raj System
N.S. Gehlot
Electoral Systems in Pacific and Other Small Islands
Dag Anckar and Carsten Anckar
Political Culture or Politicized Culture? Comparing Democracies in South and Southeast Asia
Habibul Haque Khondker

Europe's Political Policy

Formation of the New Russian Political Elite
Eberhard Schneider
Effects of Post-Communist Modernization in Russia in a Comparative Perspective
Vladimir Rukavishnikov
Explaining Ideological Swings in Western Democracies: A Comparative Analysis, 1952-1989
HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording
Party Systems and Elites in Post-Communist Europe
Jan Pakulski
Dissolution of the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Federations: A Lose-Lose Policy Outcome?
Jim Seroka
Post-Communist Russia as a Challenge to Transition Theories
Andrei Melville
Legislative Agenda Setting in East Central Europe: What Makes a Difference?
Gabriella Ilonszki

Latin and North America's Political Policy

Carlos Menem and the Reshaping of Argentine History
Siamak Khatami
Why Have Brazilian Legislators Decided to "Clean Up Their Sidewalks"?: The Influence of the Brazilian Political Institutions on the Process of State Reform
Carlos Pereira
Impacts of NAFTA on Intergovernmental Relations for U.S. and Mexican Municipalities
Michelle A. Saint-Germain
New Institutional Mechanisms and Local Conflicts
Pierre Hamel
Effects of Public Funding on Party Participation: A Hypothesis and a Case Study
Jonathan Mendilow and Frank L. Rusciano