Carol Ann Drogus - Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

• new examination of the beneficial economic function of the modern state to correct market failure, the occurrence of market externalities, the financial collapse that led to the Great Recession, the market failure of monopolies, and the global policy coordination of the G-20 in response to the Great Recession.
• new discussion of the trade-off between popular participation in the government and the representation of many viewpoints and effective governance; new section comparing executive-legislative institutions; new Methods in Context box asks, When do politicians constrain bureaucrats, and when do they not?
• more information on the SNTV and AV electoral systems; recent scholarship on the decline of partisan loyalty and increased electoral volatility; new discussion of patron-client relationships; new Methods in Context box examines what might explain the trend of major parties declining share of the vote.
• explores the dictators dilemma in greater depth: How do authoritarian regimes rely on military forces to maintain power, and how do they seek to influence the citizenry through co-optation and repression? New case studies consider Chinas evolution from a communist to modernizing authoritarian regime, whether Iran is a theocracy or a military dictatorship, and Nigerias weakening institutions under military rule; new mini case on the unraveling of semi-authoritarian regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
• new Methods in Context box examines comparativists research on whether modernization causes democracy; new case study on Mexico and its transition from a semi-authoritarian regime.
• considers the wide-ranging results of globalization; examines how various countries were impacted by the Great Recession; new Methods in Context box explores whether democracies or dictatorships produce better development; mini case considers Turkey as a potential Middle Eastern tiger.
• discusses using tax expenditures to achieve social policy goals and how welfare states are changing in response to globalization; new Methods in Context box explores comparativists research asking Can democracy make you healthier?
• considers communitarianisms role behind inclusion policies and the use of quotas for womens representation in politics; new case study on Mexico examines anticlericalism in a Catholic country.

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Introducing
Comparative Politics

Concepts and Cases in Context

2nd Edition

CAROL ANN DROGUS
STEPHEN ORVIS

Hamilton College

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Drogus, Carol Ann.

Introducing comparative politics: concepts and cases in context/Carol Ann Drogus, Stephen Orvis. 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60871-668-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Comparative government.

2. Comparative governmentCase studies. I. Orvis, Stephen Walter II. Title.

JF51.D76 2011

320.3dc23

2011023853

To Nick and Will, in the hope that their generation will better understand the world, in order to improve it.

Carol Ann Drogus is Associate Dean of Students for Off-Campus Study at Hamilton College. She is a specialist on Brazil, religion, and womens political participation. She taught introduction to comparative politics for more than fifteen years, as well as courses on Latin American politics, gender and politics, and women in Latin America. She has written two books and numerous articles on the political participation of women in religious movements in Brazil.

Stephen Orvis is professor of government at Hamilton College. He is a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya in particular), identity politics, democratic transitions, and the political economy of development. He has been teaching introduction to comparative politics for more than twenty years, as well as courses on African politics, nationalism and the politics of identity, political economy of development, and weak states. He has written a book and articles on agricultural development in Kenya, as well as several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya, and is currently doing research on political institutions in Africa.