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1006273
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b760643
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Kamrava, Mehran,1964-
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Understanding comparative politics : : a framework for analysis /\ Mehran Kamrava.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1996.
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vi, 223 pages ;; 22 cm
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0415130115
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: 0415130123
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: 9780415130110
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: 9780415130127
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-215) and index.
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| Contents
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1. States and systems -- 2. A synthesis -- 3. State and social institutions -- 4. Political culture -- 5. State classifications: democratic varieties -- 6. State classifications: non-democratic varieties -- 7. Society classifications: democratic varieties -- 8. Society classifications: newly democratising polities -- 9. Society classifications: non-democratic varieties.
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| Abstract
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Understanding Comparative Politics examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. Mehran Kamrava achieves this through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, how they interact and the political cultures within which they operate.
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Based on the composition of their institutions and the pattern of relations they have established with their societies, Kamrava broadly categorises states into democratic and non-democratic varieties. He includes new democracies and pseudo-democracies in his first variety. Societies, however, he divides into three general types: democratic polities, found mainly in the first world, are accustomed to the rules and norms of democracy and are characterised by a high level of state-society fusion; newly democratising polities dominate in regions such as South America and Eastern Europe which have undergone processes of democratisation in recent years; while non-democratic societies, in which either a democratic system has not evolved or has not taken root, tend to be found in Africa, parts of Asia and the Middle East.
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Understanding Comparative Politics traces the evolution of comparative politics as a discipline and points to the strengths and weaknesses of past and present comparative methodologies. This book will be invaluable for any student of comparative politics wishing to go beyond a straightforward institutional analysis and comparison of a small group of countries.
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Comparative government.
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89.03 methods and techniques of political science.
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Comparative government.
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Comparative government.
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Vergleichende politische Wissenschaft
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Vergelijkende politicologie.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.3
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JF51.K27 1996
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89.03bcl
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MB 2480rvk
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ME 1000rvk
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