Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World

Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World

Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World is an exciting new core text for introduction to comparative politics courses, focusing on the dynamics of politics: modernization, revolution, coups and democratization.

Unlike other texts, Comparative Politics integrates thematic and extensive country-specific material in each chapter, striking a unique balance between discussing a wide range of countries and civilizations in detail, whilst using shorter focused textboxes to clearly illustrate key thematic points.

Key features and benefits include:

• explanations of core concepts such as state, nation, regime, legitimacy, modernization, globalization, revolution, and mass movements
• an introduction of key theoretical approaches such as institutionalism, structural functionalism, political culture, political economy, and game theory
• detailed coverage of democratization, advanced democracies, developing countries and communist and post-communist states
• a range of perspectives to present a nuanced view of the discipline and contemporary political developments
• case studies of individual countries including Germany, the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Nigeria, Zaire/Congo, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Pakistan, India, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China
• country-focused textboxes giving a chronology of key developments, including the United Kingdom, France, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.

Extensively illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, tables and explanatory boxes, Comparative Politics is an innovative core text, and essential reading for all students of Comparative Politics.

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Contemporary Urban Haiku





The author of Contemporary Urban Haiku, Fred Simmons, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1928, and is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, B.A. with major in English Literature in 1952 and an L.L.B., later Juris Doctor, J.D. in 1958). Mr.Simmons served as a naval officer during the Korean War, and since 1958 he has been a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles. Mr.Simmons has been Certified as a Specialist in Taxation and also in Estate Planning, Trusts, and Probate. He has written and lectured nationally on Tax and Estate Planning for the wealthy. His legal practice, he says with some embarrass-ment, involves "specializing in fine print and loopholes, and has, sadly, only served to make rich men much richer and myself rich in the process." His poetry, which he thinks of as an escape from his real work has been published in national magazines.

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