John T. Ishiyama 
Comparative Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Principles of Democracy and Democratization

By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder
democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how
democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a
country’s unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and
international circumstances.



* Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder
democratic development

* Reveals that democracy may not be the best institutional
arrangement given a country’s unique set of historical, economic,
social, cultural and international circumstances

* Applies theories and principles relating to the promotion of
the development of democracy to the contemporary case studies

Table of Content

1 Introduction: Comparative Politics and Democracy.

2 Democracy and Democratization in Historical Perspective.

3 Economics and Political Development.

4 Political Culture and Ethnopolitics.

5 Social Structure and Politics.

6 Democratization and the Global Environment.

7 Electoral Systems.

8 Legislatures and Executives.

9 Comparative Judicial Politics and the Territorial Arrangement
of the Political System.

10 Conclusion: Principles in Application.

Index.

About the author

John T. Ishiyama is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. He is editor in chief of the Journal of Political Science Education. Professor Ishiyama is the author of six books and over 100 articles on political science-related issues. He studies the politics of post-communist eastern and central Europe and Africa (especially Ethiopia).