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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas Chalmers , Scott MainwaringPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.836kg ISBN: 9780268023720ISBN 10: 0268023727 Pages: 502 Publication Date: 30 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA revisiting of Stepanian themes--democracy and its links with the military, the state, federalism, and religion--that explores and develops Stepan's original insights and suggests new avenues for research. This is comparative politics with a sense of purpose. It is a rightful recognition of a scholar who challenges us to think big and search for ways to make democracy work. --Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California This rich collection of essays reflects the wide sweep of theoretical and geographical research interests and accomplishments of Alfred Stepan. Stepan's pioneering ideas and probing questions have inspired and supported social science colleagues and students for over four decades in the search for ways to construct more peaceful, tolerant, and democratic societies. These fine essays provide some of the answers discovered in this ongoing search, and they point the way forward in the research agenda. --Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Through critical and enthusiastic engagement with the wide-ranging contributions of Alfred Stepan, a leading agenda-setter in comparative social science for the last forty years, the contributors offer cutting-edge essays on the most pressing problems facing democracies across the world today. The geographical scope of the volume, like the work of Stepan itself, is especially impressive, as is its cross-generational coalition of contributors, which includes very distinguished senior scholars and 'scholar-politicians' as well as some promising younger scholars who are now starting to make their mark in the field. --Richard Snyder, Brown University For the past half-century Alfred Stepan has been one of the world's most innovative and influential scholars in the field of comparative politics. . . . Stepan's distinction as a comparativist has now been marked by an excellent volume in his honour, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Douglas Chalmers. In order to give the book intellectual coherence the editors limit the contributions to an examination of the problems confronting contemporary democracies. --Government and Opposition """For the past half-century Alfred Stepan has been one of the world's most innovative and influential scholars in the field of comparative politics. . . . Stepan's distinction as a comparativist has now been marked by an excellent volume in his honour, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Douglas Chalmers. In order to give the book intellectual coherence the editors limit the contributions to an examination of the problems confronting contemporary democracies."" —Government and Opposition ""A revisiting of Stepanian themes—democracy and its links with the military, the state, federalism, and religion—that explores and develops Stepan’s original insights and suggests new avenues for research. This is comparative politics with a sense of purpose. It is a rightful recognition of a scholar who challenges us to think big and search for ways to make democracy work."" —Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California ""Through critical and enthusiastic engagement with the wide-ranging contributions of Alfred Stepan, a leading agenda-setter in comparative social science for the last forty years, the contributors offer cutting-edge essays on the most pressing problems facing democracies across the world today. The geographical scope of the volume, like the work of Stepan itself, is especially impressive, as is its cross-generational coalition of contributors, which includes very distinguished senior scholars and 'scholar-politicians' as well as some promising younger scholars who are now starting to make their mark in the field."" —Richard Snyder, Brown University ""This rich collection of essays reflects the wide sweep of theoretical and geographical research interests and accomplishments of Alfred Stepan. Stepan’s pioneering ideas and probing questions have inspired and supported social science colleagues and students for over four decades in the search for ways to construct more peaceful, tolerant, and democratic societies. These fine essays provide some of the answers discovered in this ongoing search, and they point the way forward in the research agenda."" —Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies: Essays in Honor of Alfred Stepan is an impressive collection of fourteen papers originally presented at a conference held in honor of Alfred Stepan at Columbia University in 2007.”—Journal of Economic Literature." This rich collection of essays reflects the wide sweep of theoretical and geographical research interests and accomplishments of Alfred Stepan. Stepan's pioneering ideas and probing questions have inspired and supported social science colleagues and students for over four decades in the search for ways to construct more peaceful, tolerant, and democratic societies. These fine essays provide some of the answers discovered in this ongoing search, and they point the way forward in the research agenda. --Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A revisiting of Stepanian themes--democracy and its links with the military, the state, federalism, and religion--that explores and develops Stepan's original insights and suggests new avenues for research. This is comparative politics with a sense of purpose. It is a rightful recognition of a scholar who challenges us to think big and search for ways to make democracy work. --Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California Through critical and enthusiastic engagement with the wide-ranging contributions of Alfred Stepan, a leading agenda-setter in comparative social science for the last forty years, the contributors offer cutting-edge essays on the most pressing problems facing democracies across the world today. The geographical scope of the volume, like the work of Stepan itself, is especially impressive, as is its cross-generational coalition of contributors, which includes very distinguished senior scholars and 'scholar-politicians' as well as some promising younger scholars who are now starting to make their mark in the field. --Richard Snyder, Brown University For the past half-century Alfred Stepan has been one of the world's most innovative and influential scholars in the field of comparative politics. . . . Stepan's distinction as a comparativist has now been marked by an excellent volume in his honour, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Douglas Chalmers. In order to give the book intellectual coherence the editors limit the contributions to an examination of the problems confronting contemporary democracies. --Government and Opposition Author InformationDouglas Chalmers is professor emeritus of political science, Columbia University. Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |