Comparative Politics – 2nd Edition
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David J. Samuels
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, CONTENTS
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Chapter 1. Doing Comparative Politics 1
Chapter 2. The State 26
Chapter 3. Democratic Political Regimes 52
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Chapter 4. Non-Democratic Political Regimes 85
Chapter 5. Regime Change 115
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Chapter 6. Political Identity 143
Chapter 7. Religion and Politics 169
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Chapter 8. Gender and Politics 197
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Chapter 9. Collective Action 220
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Chapter 10. Political Violence 248
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Chapter 11. Political Economy of Development 275
Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Redistribution 304
Chapter 13. Globalization 333
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, Chapter 1: Doing Comparative Politics
Learning Objectives
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• 1.1 What is comparative politics all about?
• 1.2 What sorts of questions do we ask in comparative politics?
• 1.3 How do we build arguments in comparative politics?
• 1.4 What challenges confront building arguments in comparative politics?
• 1.5 How do we obtain evidence to build arguments in comparative politics?
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Chapter Summary
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This chapter opens by asking, “Why study comparative politics?” We study comparative
politics in order to explain different political and economic outcomes in different countries. We
study comparative politics in order to better understand our own country. This textbook takes a
question-and -answer organizational approach in order to help the student recognize different
explanations for the same event and to aid students in their comparative thinking. This book is
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designed to give students the tools they will need to critically engage key questions and build
their own arguments about politics.
Studying Comparative Politics
Politics is about the making of authoritative public choices from private preferences.
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Political science examines these public choices and seeks to understand how those choices
were arrived at and what consequences arose from those choices. Comparative politics is the
systematic search for answers to political questions about how people around the world make
and contest authoritative public choices. Comparative politics looks at why countries made
different decisions under similar political rules or similar decisions under different political
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rules. Comparativists use countries as cases in order compare and contrast them.
Comparativists engage in this research in order to understand how politics works around the
world. They assemble evidence which supports their arguments rather than relying on
“conventional wisdom” which occasionally falls down in the face of the facts. While
conventional wisdom may be accurate at time, comparativists use the comparative method to
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buttress their claims. The comparing and contrasting of cases is used to generate hypotheses
about politics around the world.
The Foundations of Comparative Politics
Many of the questions comparativists ask today are quite ancient. The Greek
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philosopher Aristotle attempted to compare and contrast all of the constitutions of his day in
order to determine which best balanced good government with political stability.
Comparativists of today still ask the same question. Prior to the Enlightenment, most study of
government was from a religious and moral perspective. After the Renaissance and the
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Enlightenment, the study of government moved to a more secular position and philosophers
like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke began to theorize about secular-rational
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Copyright ©2018, 2013 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
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INSTRUCTOR’S
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RESOURCE
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PP
MANUAL & TEST
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BANK
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David J. Samuels
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©Medexcellence ✅��
, Complete Instructor’s Resource Manual & Test
Bank for Instructors and Students
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© David J. Samuels
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All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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PP
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©Medexcellence ✅��
, CONTENTS
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Chapter 1. Doing Comparative Politics 1
Chapter 2. The State 26
Chapter 3. Democratic Political Regimes 52
IA
Chapter 4. Non-Democratic Political Regimes 85
Chapter 5. Regime Change 115
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Chapter 6. Political Identity 143
Chapter 7. Religion and Politics 169
.
Chapter 8. Gender and Politics 197
PP
Chapter 9. Collective Action 220
.
Chapter 10. Political Violence 248
RO
Chapter 11. Political Economy of Development 275
Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Redistribution 304
Chapter 13. Globalization 333
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, Chapter 1: Doing Comparative Politics
Learning Objectives
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• 1.1 What is comparative politics all about?
• 1.2 What sorts of questions do we ask in comparative politics?
• 1.3 How do we build arguments in comparative politics?
• 1.4 What challenges confront building arguments in comparative politics?
• 1.5 How do we obtain evidence to build arguments in comparative politics?
IA
Chapter Summary
_A
This chapter opens by asking, “Why study comparative politics?” We study comparative
politics in order to explain different political and economic outcomes in different countries. We
study comparative politics in order to better understand our own country. This textbook takes a
question-and -answer organizational approach in order to help the student recognize different
explanations for the same event and to aid students in their comparative thinking. This book is
PP
designed to give students the tools they will need to critically engage key questions and build
their own arguments about politics.
Studying Comparative Politics
Politics is about the making of authoritative public choices from private preferences.
RO
Political science examines these public choices and seeks to understand how those choices
were arrived at and what consequences arose from those choices. Comparative politics is the
systematic search for answers to political questions about how people around the world make
and contest authoritative public choices. Comparative politics looks at why countries made
different decisions under similar political rules or similar decisions under different political
VE
rules. Comparativists use countries as cases in order compare and contrast them.
Comparativists engage in this research in order to understand how politics works around the
world. They assemble evidence which supports their arguments rather than relying on
“conventional wisdom” which occasionally falls down in the face of the facts. While
conventional wisdom may be accurate at time, comparativists use the comparative method to
D?
buttress their claims. The comparing and contrasting of cases is used to generate hypotheses
about politics around the world.
The Foundations of Comparative Politics
Many of the questions comparativists ask today are quite ancient. The Greek
??
philosopher Aristotle attempted to compare and contrast all of the constitutions of his day in
order to determine which best balanced good government with political stability.
Comparativists of today still ask the same question. Prior to the Enlightenment, most study of
government was from a religious and moral perspective. After the Renaissance and the
??
Enlightenment, the study of government moved to a more secular position and philosophers
like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke began to theorize about secular-rational
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Copyright ©2018, 2013 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
