1st Edition

New Directions In Comparative Politics, Third Edition

By Howard Wiarda Copyright 2002
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book discusses the major schools of thought or paradigms in comparative politics: development theory, political culture, dependency analysis, corporatism, state-society relations, political economy, theories of change, comparative public policy, institutionalism, and rational choice theory.

    1. Introduction: New Directions in Comparative Politics 2. Corporatism and Comparative Politics: Is There a New Century of Corporatism? 3. The Dependency Approach 4. The State in Society 5. Comparative Political Economy 6. Public Policy and Politics: Analyzing Policy in Comparative Perspective 7. Non-Western Theories of Development: Critiques and Explorations 8. Political Culture and Democracy 9. Rational Choice Theory in Comparative Politics 10. The Study of Political Institutions 11. Toward the Future: Old and New Directions in Comparative Politics

    Biography

    Wiarda, Howard