Comparative Politics: Principles of Democracy and Democratization
John T. Ishiyama
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN: 1405186860
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.
- Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development
- Reveals that democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances
- Applies theories and principles relating to the promotion of the development of democracy to the contemporary case studies
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Turning to a definition of comparative politics, it is first important to note that comparative politics is a subfield of political science, which includes other subfields, such as International Relations, Political Thought/ Theory, Public Administration, Judicial Politics, etc. In American political science, American Politics is also considered a subfield, but this view is not shared by European scholars, for instance, who simply include American politics as a case within comparative politics.
In Historical Perspective If this is what we mean by democracy, what, then, do we mean by the process of democratization? Democratization is the process by which societies develop toward democracy. Some, like Freeman and Snidal (1982, p. 300) define democratization as the extension of citizenship and the franchise. Yet, this presupposes that meaningful elections take place and that political elites will abide by outcomes of such elections, which implies at least the notion that a rule of law.
Rule of law been established prior to the coming of industrialization?; (3) To what extent had the old social order been swept away prior to the coming of industrialization? Each of the four cases represents very different patterns of historical development. These patterns are illustrated in Table 2.1. The English case illustrates the pattern where prior to industrialization a political national identity (or Staatsnation) had been developed which tied people together. Although the development of.
Audience to the concept of dependency theory, with the publication in 1966 of a short essay in the Monthly Review entitled “The development of underdevelopment.” This was followed by a more substantial work in 1967, entitled Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. At the heart of his argument was the notion that underdevelopment and poverty in the developing world were a direct result of the expansion of world capitalism. In other words, modernization in the industrial world had led to.
Remove associational life from its prominent position of study, they encourage a distinct focus on the internal workings of groups (and the subsequent social capital movement) rather than on pronouncements of the importance of civil society as a whole. Foley and Edwards (1996) argue that a focus on voluntary nonpolitical organizations as the core of civil society underestimates the impact of participation in explicitly political organizations. Indeed, one might Social Structure and Politics.