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List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes Dangers and Opportunities in a Shrinking World Leaders in Transition The State: One Focus among Many What Is the State? Types of States Strong and Weak States Comparative Politics Three Templates The Political System Historical and Contemporary Factors State, Society, and Globalization Five Themes Using This Book Industrialized Democracies The Industrialized Democracies Four Elections The United States Great Britain France Germany Common and Not-So-Common Themes Thinking about Democracy The Basics Which Countries Are Democracies? Key Questions The Origins of the Democratic State The Origins of Democratic Thought Building Democracies Political Culture and Participation The Civic Culture? Political Parties and Elections Catch-All Parties New Divisions Realignment? Interest Groups Political Protest The Democratic State Presidential and Parliamentary Systems The Rest of the State Public Policy The Interventionist State Foreign Policy Feedback Conclusion: The Worst Form of Government Except for All the Others? The United States A More Normal Election Thinking about the United States The Making of the American State The Constitutional Order Since the Founders The American People and Politics The American Political Culture Parties and Elections Social Movements The Weak American State The Legislative Process The Rest of the Weak State Consensus Policy Making Public Policy Feedback Conclusion: American Exceptionalism Great Britain Tony's Tough Week Thinking about Britain Key Questions The Basics The Evolution of the British State The Broad Sweep of British History The Collectivist Consensus British Political Culture The Civic Culture and the Collectivist Years The Politics of Protest: Toward an Uncivic Culture? The Civic Culture Holds Will There Always Be a Britain? Political Participation The Conservatives Labour The Liberal Democrats Minor Parties The British Electorate Interest Groups The British State: Enduring Myths and Changing Realities The Monarchy and the Lords: Still Dignified? Parliamentary Sovereignty-Sort of Cabinet Government? The Rest of the State Public Policy: The Thatcher and Blair Revolutions Domestic Politics Foreign Policy Feedback Conclusion: Blair's Legacy and British Democracy France Not a Contradiction in Terms Thinking about France Key Questions The Basics The Evolution of the French State: Centuries of Turmoil Transformation and Division Traditional Republican Politics: A Vicious Circle From the Fourth to the Fifth Republic French Political Culture: From Alienation toward Consensus Taming Political Protest New Divisions Political Participation Renewing the Party System Why These Changes Happened: The French Electoral System Parity: A Victory for Feminism? p Interest Groups The French State A New Constitution for a New State The Integrated Elite Local Government The Courts The Changing Role of the State Public Policy: The Pursuit of Grandeur Economic Policy The Politics of Headscarves Foreign Policy Feedback Conclusion: A Remarkable Turnaround Germany A Telling Snapshot Thinking about Germany The Basics Key Questions The Evolution of the German State: The German Questions Unification and the Kaiser's Reich Weimar and the Rise of Hitler The Third Reich Occupation and the Two Germanys Building a Democratic Germany Creating a Democratic Political Culture Political Participation Parties and the Electoral Process The Christian Democrats The Social Democrats The Free Democratic Party The Greens The Party of Democratic Socialism The Far Right Interest Groups The German State: A Smoothly Functioning Democracy Chancellor Democracy The Bundestag The Bundesrat The Federal System The Civil Service The Constitutional Court Corporatism Public Policy: Modell Deutschland The Social Market Economy Unification Feedback Conclusion: Democratization The European Union You Say You Want a Constitution? Thinking about the EU Who's In? Who's Out? The New Europe Three Pillars Key Questions The Evolution of the EU Not Such a New Idea Creating the Common Market Political Culture and Participation in the EU The European State? The Commission The Council The European Court of Justice The European Parliament The Complexity of EU Decision Making Next Steps? The EU and National Sovereignty Public Policy in the EU The Internal Market The Common Agricultural Policy Feedback Conclusion: A Balance Sheet The Crisis of Communism Current and Former Communist Regimes Good Bye, Lenin Thinking about the Current and Former Communist Regimes Thinking about Communism The Leninist State Command Economies Key Questions Socialism, Marxism, Leninism Socialism Marxism Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Expansion De-Stalinization The Marxist-Leninist State The Party State The Graying of Communism The Crisis of Communism: Suicide by Public Policy Reform: Too Little, Too Late 1989: The Year That Changed the World The Remnants of the Communist World Transitions (Relative) Success: Eastern and Central Europe Troubled Transitions: The Former Soviet Union Ethnic Conflict What's Left of Marxism? Feedback Conclusion: The End of an Era Russia Guilty until Proven Guilty Thinking about Russia The Basics Key Questions The Evolution of the Russian State The Broad Sweep of Russian History Prelude to Revolution Lenin and the (Wrong?) Revolution Stalin, Terror, and the Modernization of the Soviet Union Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the Politics of Decline The Collapse of the Soviet State: The Gorbachev Years Crisis and Collapse Between Dictatorship and Democracy Birth Pangs Putin and Stability Political Culture and Participation Political Culture Political Parties and Elections The Russian State The Presidency The Oligarchs The Parliament The Bureaucracy The Judiciary The Federation The Military Public Policy The Economy Foreign Policy Feedback Conclusion: Half Empty or Half Full China Hu's on First Thinking about China The Basics Key Questions The Evolution of the Chinese State The Broad Sweep of Chinese History A Failed Revolution China Stands Up Factionalism Since Mao's Death Political Culture and Participation A Blank Slate? A Cultural Revolution? Participation from the Top Down From the Bottom Up? Dissent The Party State A New Kind of Party? The Road to Power Variations on a Theme Public Policy: Perestroika without Glasnost Economic Reform Foreign Policy Feedback Conclusion: Kadan or Communism? The Third World The Third World Coltan and Politics Thinking about the Third World The Basics Key Questions The Evolution of Politics in the Third World Imperialism and Its Legacy Independence Postcolonial Problems Political Culture in the Third World Identity Ethnic and Other Divisions A Lack of Legitimacy Political Participation in the Third World Weak States Types of States States and Power Public Policy: The Myths and Realities of Development Import Substitution Structural Adjustment The International Financial Institutions Foreign Aid Microcredit Feedback Conclusion: Democratization India Who Gives a Dam? Thinking about India The Basics Key Questions The Evolution of Indian Politics The Weight of History British Colonialism The Struggle for Independence The New Republic Centralization and Fragmentation Coalition Politics Political Culture Challenges to Culture and Country Support for the Regime The Challenge of Modernization Political Participation The End of the Congress System The BJP The Other Parties The Election of 2004 Interest Groups The Indian State The Constitution Parliament The Bureaucracy Federalism Public Policy Confronting Communal Violence Stimulating the Economy Feedback Conclusion: Democracy in India and the Third World Iran Teaching Lolita in Tehran Iran: The Basics Persia versus Iran Shiite versus Sunni Persia versus Shiism Social and Economic Conditions Key Questions The Evolution of the Iranian State Before Islam The Arrival and Consolidation of Islam The Last Shahs The Islamic Republic The People and Politics Political Culture Protest and Challenges to the Islamic Republic Elections and the Propects for Democracy in Iran The Iranian State The Unelected Elements The Elected Institutions The Routinization of Charisma Public Policy Faith and Gender The Economy Iran and the United States: Axis of Evil? Feedback Conclusion: Uncertainty Iraq Before We Begin What a Difference a Year Can Make-In Either Direction Thinking about Iraq The Basics The Evolution of the Iraqi State Political Culture and Participation The State under Saddam Hussein Public Policy The Third War and the New Iraq A Decade of Tension The Third War Occupation and Insurgency The Insurrection The New Iraq? Feedback Nigeria A New Democracy? Thinking about Nigeria Poverty Ethnicity High Stakes Politics Key Questions The Evolution of the Nigerian State Before the British Colonization Colonial Rule Independence The First Republic Military Rule I The Second Republic Military Rule II Military Rule III Political Culture Mass Political Culture Elite Culture Nonelectoral Participation Political Parties and Elections The Fragile Nigerian State The Fourth Republic The Personalization of Power Corruption Federalism Public Policy Democratization Economic Development and Structural Adjustment Feedback Nigeria and the Plight of the Third World Mexico A Failing Presidency? Thinking about Mexico The Basics Big Brother Is Watching Key Questions The Evolution of Mexican Politics The Colonial Era Independence The Revolution Institutionalizing the Revolution Cardenas and His Legacy An Institutional Revolutionary Party Political Culture Political Participation The PRI and Its Hold on Power The Other Parties The People, the PRI, and Civil Society The Mexican State Nonreelection and Presidential Domination The Cabinet, the Bureaucracy, and the Judiciary Congress and the Legislative Process The Federal System The Military Corporatism and Corruption Public Policy Debt and Development U.S.-Mexican Relations Feedback Conclusion: Mexico and the Third World Conclusion Danger...and Opportunity Crisis Danger The Growing Cost of Violence and War Environmental Abuse The Perilous Global Economy Lives without Dignity The Wheel of Fortune Constraints on States and Citizens Opportunity: A Change in the Way We Think Ways of Thinking Conventional Values Cooperative Problem Solving Thinking Systemically Conclusion: Student and Citizen Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. 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