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Looks at the functional approach of political theory - examining system, process and policy to understand government. This analytic structure allows the reader to move logically from institution to institution and process to process - without losing the essential connection and meaning.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Part 1 Introduction
• Chapter 1 Issues in Comparative Politics(p. 1)
• What Is Politics?(p. 1)
• Governments and the State of Nature(p. 3)
• Why Governments?(p. 5)
• When Does Government Become the Problem?(p. 9)
• Political Systems(p. 16)
• States(p. 17)
• Building Community(p. 21)
• Fostering Development(p. 28)
• Securing Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties(p. 34)
• Key Terms(p. 37)
• Suggested Readings(p. 37)
• Notes(p. 38)
• Chapter 2 Comparing Political Systems
• Why We Compare(p. 39)
• How We Compare(p. 41)
• Systems: Structure and Function(p. 43)
• Structures and Functions(p. 46)
• An Illustrative Comparison: Russia in 1985 and 1998(p. 50)
• The Policy Level: Performance, Outcome, and Evaluation(p. 53)
• Key Terms(p. 54)
• Suggested Readings(p. 55)
• Notes(p. 55)
• Part 2 System, Process, and Policy
• Chapter 3 Political Culture and Political Socialization(p. 56)
• Political Culture(p. 56)
• Mapping the Three Levels of Political Culture(p. 57)
• Political Socialization(p. 65)
• Agents of Political Socialization(p. 66)
• Trends in Contemporary Political Cultures(p. 72)
• Key Terms(p. 75)
• Suggested Readings(p. 75)
• Notes(p. 76)
• Chapter 4 Interest Articulation(p. 78)
• Citizen Action(p. 78)
• Interest Groups(p. 83)
• Access to the Influential(p. 90)
• Policy Perspectives on Interest Articulation(p. 96)
• Interest Group Development(p. 96)
• Key Terms(p. 99)
• Suggested Readings(p. 100)
• Notes(p. 100)
• Chapter 5 Interest Aggregation and Political Parties(p. 103)
• Personal Interest Aggregation(p. 104)
• Institutional Interest Aggregation(p. 104)
• Competitive Party Systems and Interest Aggregation(p. 106)
• Authoritarian Party Systems(p. 116)
• The Military and Interest Aggregation(p. 119)
• Trends in Interest Aggregation(p. 120)
• Significance of Interest Aggregation(p. 122)
• Key Terms(p. 124)
• Suggested Readings(p. 124)
• Notes(p. 125)
• Chapter 6 Government and Policymaking(p. 128)
• Constitutions and Decision Rules(p. 128)
• Democracy and Authoritarianism(p. 131)
• Geographic Distribution of Government Power(p. 132)
• Separation of Government Powers(p. 134)
• Limitations on Government Powers(p. 138)
• Assemblies(p. 141)
• Political Executives(p. 144)
• The Bureaucracy(p. 150)
• Elite Recruitment(p. 154)
• Control of Elites(p. 160)
• Key Terms(p. 163)
• Suggested Readings(p. 164)
• Notes(p. 164)
• Chapter 7 Public Policy(p. 166)
• Government and What It Does(p. 166)
• Extraction(p. 168)
• Distribution(p. 171)
• Regulation(p. 175)
• Community-Building and Symbolic Policies(p. 179)
• Outcomes: Domestic Welfare(p. 180)
• Domestic Security Outcomes(p. 186)
• International Outputs and Outcomes(p. 188)
• Political Goods and Values(p. 190)
• Strategies for Producing Political Goods(p. 193)
• Trade-Offs and Opportunity Costs(p. 198)
• Key Terms(p. 199)
• Suggested Readings(p. 200)
• Notes(p. 200)
• Index(p. 203)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Born in Rock Island, Illinois, American political scientist Gabriel Almond was educated at the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was associated with the Office of War Information and also with the War Department in Europe. After the war he served on the faculties of several universities, including Princeton University, Yale University, and Stanford University. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and the University of Belo Horizonte in Brazil as well as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Air Force.

Almond is most noted for his work in comparative politics and comparative political systems. He is the author and coauthor of several landmark books, including The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations The Civic Culture: (1963), a seminal piece in the field (coauthored with Sidney Verba).

Among Almond's other well-known works are The Politics of Developing Areas (1960) and Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (1966). A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Political Science Association, Almond received the James Madison Award in 1972 for his work in the field.

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