Arguing Comparative Politics - Softcover

Stepan, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198299974 ISBN 13: 9780198299974

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000

Synopsis

Assembling articles by one of the foremost scholars in comparative politics, this volume covers the important works and ideas in the field from the last thirty years, most notably the nature of contemporary democracy and its prospects. It begins with a personal analysis of the intellectual, and often political, reasons why and how Stepan chose to engage in certain critical arguments over the last thirty years. Dividing into three sections, the volume then explores state and society, constructing polities, and varieties of democracies. It contains articles on civil society, political society, economic society, and a usable state and compares and contrasts the incentive systems and political practices of parliamentarianism, presidentialism, and semi-presidentialism.

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About the Author

Alfred 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198299974
• ISBN 13: 9780198299974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384