An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems
Author : David Easton
Publisher : Irvington Pub
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 1957-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780829039191
The China Model
Author : Daniel A. Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400883482
Book Description
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? And how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions and more. Opening with a critique of “one person, one vote” as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages and pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy and democracy, and argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable and politically stable. Bell summarizes and evaluates the “China model”—meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, and democracy at the bottom—and its implications for the rest of the world. A timely and original book that will stir up interest and debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century.
Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models in Political Science
Author : Jim Granato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521193869
Book Description
Provides a framework to demonstrate how to unify formal, theoretical and empirical analysis through various interdisciplinary examples.
A Model Discipline
Author : Kevin A. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195382196
Book Description
Political scientists use models to investigate and illuminate causal mechanisms, generate comparative data, and more. But how do we justify and rationalize the method? Why test predictions from a deductive, and thus truth-preserving, system? Primo and Clarke tackle these central questions in this novel work of methodology.
The SAGE Handbook of Political Science
Author : Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2557 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529715431
Book Description
The SAGE Handbook of Political Science presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the discipline. Comprising three volumes of contributions from expert authors from around the world, the handbook aims to frame, assess and synthesize research in the field, helping to define and identify its current and future developments. It does so from a truly global and cross-area perspective Chapters cover a broad range of aspects, from providing a general introduction to exploring important subfields within the discipline. Each chapter is designed to provide a state-of-the-art and comprehensive overview of the topic by incorporating cross-cutting global, interdisciplinary, and, where this applies, gender perspectives. The Handbook is arranged over seven core thematic sections: Part 1: Political Theory Part 2: Methods Part 3: Political Sociology Part 4: Comparative Politics Part 5: Public Policies and Administration Part 6: International Relations Part 7: Major Challenges for Politics and Political Science in the 21st Century
The Politics of the Developing Areas
Author : Gabriel Abraham Almond
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400866979
Book Description
A pioneering venture, this book is the first major effort toward a valid comparison of the political systems of Asia, Africa, the Near East, and Latin America. After establishing a theoretical framework based on a functional approach to comparative politics, the authors apply their scheme to Southeast Asia (Lucian W. Pye), South Asia (Myron Weiner), SubSaharan Africa (James S. Coleman), the Near East (Dankwart Rustow), and Latin America (George I. Blanksten). In each area they survey the political background, the nature and function of political, governmental, and authoritative structures, the processes of change and means of political integration. The contributors have performed an extraordinarily difficult feat of classification, description, synthesis, and analysis in what promises to be a book of seminal importance in comparative politics. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Computational Models in Political Economy
Author : Ken Kollman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262112758
Book Description
The use of innovative computational models in political economic research as a complement to traditional analytical methodologies.
The Political System. An Inquiry Into the State of Political Science
Author : Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Empires, monarchies, and the modern state
Author : Samuel Edward Finer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to the modern European nation state, five themes emerge: state-building, military formats, belief systems, social stratification, and timespan. The three volumes examine both representative and exceptional polities, and focus on political elites of different types. Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State (Books Four and Five) opens with Tokugawa Japan and thence reviews the evidence of Ch'ing, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires, before turning to facets of the re-creation, modernization', and transplantation of the European state model. It concludes with the synoptic review of Pathways to the Modern State'. Professor Finer's cogent descriptive analysis offers both an invaluable reference resource and an exhilarating journey across time and space.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies
Author : Robert Rohrschneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192558692
Book Description
The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.
