Political Science

This brief text presents, in a separate text, the revised and updated theoretical chapters (Parts I and II) from the best-selling Comparative Politics Today, Eighth Edition.

In this new edition, the rich theoretical framework pioneered by Gabriel Almond and G. Bingham Powell has been streamlined by co-editors Kaare Strøm and Russell Dalton and features a shift toward exploring the purpose of government. Retained and enriched, the three-part analytic framework examining system, process, and policy offers readers a coherent and accessible means to explore how different political systems are formed, maintained, and changed.

• The Microsoft® Encarta® Interactive World Atlas CD-ROM can be ordered bundled with the text at more than 60% off the retail price!

• This text's brevity enables instructors to use it in conjunction with a variety of materials.

• Provides new focus on the international issues that have arisen in the post-9/11 world.

• The authors have further improved readability with better integration of visuals (maps, figures, tables) and by streamlining text.

• New in Chapter 1: Additional discussion of “North and South” relationship in the classification of nations. (Previously classified as “First, Second, and Third Worlds”); coverage of religious beliefs and their political consequences is expanded in the wake of 9/11; new box: “Osama bin Laden, Al Quaeda, and the Taliban” explains who these people/groups are—the relationships/connections and also the differences among them.

• New in Chapter 2: Inclusion of social factors in the discussion of “structural functionalism”—additional coverage in both text and figures; updated Russian comparison, which compares the structure and function of Russia's political system in 1985 and in 2002.

• New in Chapter 4: New box providing coverage of “attacks on globalization”—the issues behind a 2001 protest at the G8 Summit Meeting in Genoa and the effects (or lack thereof) on elections and goals of the summit.

• New in Chapter 5: Expansion of the range of classifications of Competitive Party Systems to include majority-coalition systems and accommodative systems.

• New in Chapter 7: Thoroughly updated examples of global and national income distribution, political rights and liberties ratings, and domestic welfare outcomes.

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. SYSTEM, PROCESS, AND POLICY.

Comparative Politics  (Political Science)

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  Comparative Politics Today: A Theoretical Framework, 5/E
  Almond, Powell, Jr., Dalton & Strøm
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205576567 | ISBN-13: 9780205576562
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  Presenting the revised and updated theoretical chapters from the bestselling Comparative Politics Today, this text is a brief survey of the fundamental concepts students need to study government and politics.
  
  Beginning with a discussion of the purpose of government and of the methods for comparing political systems, the text then examines system, process, and policy as well as essential themes in comparative politics, like democratization, identity and community, and economic and social development. Through the seminal theoretical framework created by Gabriel Almond and G. Bingham Powell and refined by Kaare Strøm and Russell Dalton, students will learn to make insightful comparisons no matter what countries they are studying.

   

   

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