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By elevating all the components of identity as core elements of any political system, Lisa A. Baglione′s Understanding Comparative Politics helps students better appreciate the lived realities of people around the world. The book puts issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion in context, encouraging students to think critically about world regions and individual countries through the lens of current issues like social justice movements and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the book, Baglione empowers students to be active learners in this sometimes-daunting subject by engaging them in important questions, grounding them in foundational concepts like geography, and helping them make personal connections.
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Tabella dei contenuti
Chapter 1: Getting Started: Inclusivity and Building a Foundation with Concepts and Data
An Inclusive Approach to Comparative Politics
Laying the Foundation: Four Glances at the World
Foundational Concepts in Comparative Politics
Basic Theory and Methods in Comparative Politics
Why Compare in an Inclusive and Systematic Fashion
Conclusion: Starting to Build Our Edifice of Comparative Politics
Chapter 2: Understanding Democracy: Definition, Institutions, Ideas, and Norms
Getting Started: Understanding Democracy in Europe and Elsewhere
What Is Democracy?
What Are the Basic Political Institutions of Democracy?
Economic Institutions and Democracy
Ideology in the Political Spectrum in European Democracies and Beyond
Democracy, Political Culture, and the Challenge of Inclusion
Conclusion: Democracy and Its Political Institutions, Political Economies, and Political Cultures
Chapter 3: Taking a Look at Europe
Getting to Know Europe
Taking a Look at European Geography
Taking a Look at Political Development in Europe
Taking a Look at Politics in Europe
Taking a Look at Economies in Europe
Taking a Look at Contemporary Social Conditions
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Data
Conclusion: Our Look at Europe
Chapter 4: Politics in the U.K.: How Did British Politics Go from Staid to Unstable?
UK: Land and People
Political Development
Contemporary Political Performance and Political Institutions
Economic Performance and the Political Economy: Successful and Increasingly Liberal Britain
British Culture and Political Culture
How and Why Did Instability Come to This Previously Staid System?
Conclusion: The State of Contemporary British Democracy
Chapter 5: Overview of Communism: Revolution, Political Institutions, Political Economy and Political Culture
Understanding Communist Revolutions
Political Institutions under Communism
Political Economy of Communism
Political Culture of Communism
What Is Totalitarianism?
Conclusion: Understanding Communism
Chapter 6: Taking a Look: Post-Soviet States
Getting to Know the Post-Soviet Super Region
Geography of the Post-Soviet States
Political Development of the Post-Soviet States
Taking a Look at Politics in the Post-Soviet Region
Taking a Look at Economics in the Post-Soviet Region
Taking a Look at Social Conditions in the Post-Soviet States
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Data
Conclusion: Our Foray into the Post-Soviet States
Chapter 7: Politics in Russia: Why Is Authoritarianism So Seemingly Stable Despite Earlier Hopes for Democratic Change?
Introduction: Hopes for Russian Democracy Dashed in the Twenty-First Century
Russia: Land and People
Political Development: From Russian Empire to USSR to Russia
Russia’s Post-Soviet Political Performance and Institutions
Russia’s Economic Performance and Political Economy: A State Capitalist Kleptocracy
Russia’s Political Culture: Culture Wars and Russian Nationalism
What Is Putinism and How Stable Is It?
Conclusion: Understanding Russian Politics
Chapter 8: Taking a Look: East, Southeast, and South (ESEA) Asia
Introducing Three Regions of Asia
Geography in East, Southeast, and South Asia: Taking a First Look at These Parts of the World
Political Development: Unifying Recent Historical Experiences
Taking a Look at Regime Type in ESES Asia
Taking a Look at the Economies in ESES Asia
Taking a Look at Social Conditions in the ESES Asian Super Region
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Values
Conclusion: Our Look at ESES Asia
Chapter 9: Politics in China: How Can Such Economic Success Exist with Political Repression?
Introduction: China’s Remarkable Transformation and Ongoing Agenda
Land and People
Political Development: End of Empire, Communism, and Market Reforms
China’s Political Performance and Institutions
Economic Performance and Political Economy: Party-State Capitalism
China’s Political Culture: Blending Confucianism, Maoism, and Market Liberalism?
China’s Contemporary Authoritarianism: As Repression Grows, Can Economic Success Continue?
Conclusion: Firmly Authoritarian with Significant Headwinds Ahead
Chapter 10: Overview of the Global South: Experiences with Globalization
Representing What Is Important
Understanding Economic Globalization since 1500: A Process of Creating Hierarchies of Wealth
Understanding Political Globalization: A Process of Creating Hierarchies of Power
Globalization and the Reality of Structural Violence
Globalization and Democracy: A Complex Relationship
Conclusion: The Global South
Chapter 11: Taking a Look at Latin America
Getting to Know Latin America and the Caribbean
Basic Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean
Unifying Post-Colonial Experiences in these Regions
Taking a Look at Regime Types and States in Latin America
Taking a Look at the Economy in Latin America
Taking a Look at Contemporary Social Accomplishments and Challenges in Latin America
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Data for LA
Conclusion: Our Look at Latin America
Chapter 12: Politics in Mexico: How Can Democratization Proceed with Such Inequality, Corruption, and Violence?
Mexico: Land and People
Political Development: Persisting Inequality, Violence, and Authoritarianism
Mexico’s Politics: Dashed Hopes and Violent De-Democratization
Economic Performance and Political Economy: Development in a Narco-State Capitalist Context
Culture and Political Culture: Mexico’s Ambiguous Attitudes
What Does AMLO’s Fourth Transformation Mean for Mexican Politics?
Conclusion: Dashed Hopes and Democratic Reversal
Chapter 13: Taking a Look at the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Getting to Know MENA
Basic Geography of the MENA Region
Political Development in MENA: Religion and Conquest Brings Unity, Resentment, and Authoritarianism
Taking a Look at Regime Types and States in MENA
Taking a Look at the Economies in MENA
Taking a Look at Social Conditions and Challenges in MENA
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Data for MENA
Conclusion: Our Look at the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 14: Politics in Egypt: Why & How the “Arab Spring” Became the Egyptian Winter
Egypt: Land and People
Political Development: Colonialism, Leadership, and Military Dominance
Regime Performance and Political Institutions in Egypt: Repression, Presidentialism and the Deep State
Egypt’s Economic Performance and Political Economy: The Persistence of Statism and Rentierism, Despite Reform Efforts
Political Culture: Islam, Democracy, 2011, and After
2011 and After: Why and How the Uprising Failed
Conclusion: What a Difference a Decade Makes: Regression on Democracy and Inclusion
Chapter 15: Taking a Look at Sub-Saharan Africa
Basic Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
Taking a Look at Political Development in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1500
Taking a Look at Regime Types and States in SSA
Taking a Look at Economies in SSA
Taking a Look at Social Conditions and Challenges in SSA
One Last Look: A Glance at Some Cultural Data
Conclusion: Colonialism, Clientelism, and Likelihood of Transformation
Chapter 16: Politics in Nigeria: Why Can’t the Giant of Africa Awake?
Nigeria: Land and People
Political Development: The Overwhelming Challenge of Building Democracy in a Neo-Patrimonial, Patriarchal, Military-Dominated, and Highly Diverse State
Nigeria’s Political Performance and Institutions: Why and How Democracy Is So Hard to Achieve
Nigeria’s “Cursed” Political Economy: Oil, Inequality, and Corruption
Nigerian Political Culture: No Enthusiasm for Democracy
Nigeria: Is the Sleeping Giant Poised to Wake?
Conclusion: The Tragedy of Africa’s Sleeping Giant
Chapter 17: Concluding Your Studies: What You’ve Learned from a Data-Intensive, Interactive, Concept-Focused, and Inclusive Approach to Comparative Politics
What You Have Seen: Summary of the Conditions around the World
What You Have Seen: Summary of the Conditions in Our Case Studies
How Comparison, with the Aid of Concepts, Has Helped Us Understand
Conclusion: An Inclusive Approach to Comparative Politics
Circa l’autore
Dr. Lisa A. Baglione is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a member of the International Relations Program at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Currently, Dr. Baglione also serves as the co-director of the Gender Studies Program. During her career, Dr. Baglione has conducted research in five areas, and while they are varied, she has benefited from the ways that insights from each have interwoven: negotiations between adversaries, authoritarian transformation, peacebuilding, gender in politics, and pedagogy. She has published two other books, To Agree or Not to Agree: Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control with University of Michigan Press and Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods, now in its fourth edition, with Sage.
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