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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alfred Stepan (Wallace Sayre Professor of Government, Department of Political Science and School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.555kg ISBN: 9780198299974ISBN 10: 0198299974 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 14 June 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reflections on 'Problem Selection' in Comparative Politics ; I. THE STATE AND SOCIETY ; 1. The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role Expansion ; 2. Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and 'Organic Statist' Approaches to the State ; 3. State Power and the Strength of Civil Society in the Southern Cone of Latin America ; 4. Military Politics in Three Polity Arenas: Civil Society, Political Society, and the State ; II. CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING POLITIES: CONTEXTS, CAPACITIES AND IDENTITIES ; 5. Paths Toward Redemocratization: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations ; 6. Political Crafting of Democratic Consolidation or Destruction: European and South American Comparisons (with Juan J. Linz) ; 7. On the Tasks of a Democratic Opposition ; 8. Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory ; 9. Modern Multi-National Democracies: Transcending a Gellnerian Oxymoron ; 10. Political Identities and Electoral Sequences: Spain, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia (with Juan J. Linz) ; 11. The World s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the Twin Tolerations ; III. THE META-FRAMEWORKS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIC STATES ; 12. Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism (with Cindy Skach) ; 13. The French Fifth Republic: A Model for Import? Reflections on Poland and Brazil (with Ezra N. Suleiman) ; 14. Toward Consolidated Democracies (with Juan J. Linz) ; 15. Toward a New Comparative Analysis of Democracy and Federalism: 'Demos Constraining' and 'Demos Enabling' FederationsReviewsAt his best, Stepan widens our horizon of possibilities and challenges conventional wisdom. Stepan's boldness in tackling core assumptions and in assembling historical evidence from around the world serves to simulate a more thoughtful and informed debate. The most successful chapters are those in which the introduction of a range of historical examples generates a convincing and well-structured series of subtypes or pathways. -- Journal of Democracy <br> It is quite useful to find so much interesting material concentrated in a single volume. There are, however, two substantive issues on which Stephan breaks new ground and which promise substantial future edifices: 1) the impact of world religious systems upon democracy; and 2) the prospects for federalism as a solution to political order in multinational democracies. Government and Opposition One is constantly reminded when reading these chapters of how much richer comparative work can be when it is not just an abstract method of research but also possesses a component of human interaction built into the very processes of conceptualizing a problem and writing up the final results. Government and Opposition There is something for almost everyone who enjoys arguing about politics and wonders why human beings have invented so many ways of practising and justifying this activity. Government and Opposition The book is impressive in its empirical range. In what is a convincing argument for comparative politics, it covers virtually all corners of the world, from the established liberal democracies in the West to democratizing or consolidating democracies in Latin America and eastern Europe. In addition, Stepan's essays stand out for the bridges they construct between the empirical and theoretical debates. Whether focusing on political identities or institutions, or on the power of the state versus society, Stepan reveals an extraordinary capacity for selecting the problems relevant to contemporary democracies and arriving at agenda-setting findings ... an invaluable collection of essays. Democratization A striking demonstration of Alfred Stepan's remarkable combination of analytic range and his career-long commitment to extracting novel insights through interviews with key actors. Big questions, fruitful comparisons, and agenda-setting findings. David Collier, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationAlfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. In his career he has also been Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University, the first Rector of Central European University, and the Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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