Comparative politics

By:

Johari , J C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Sterling Pub.; 2003Edition: 3rd Rev edDescription: 600pISBN:

9788120704688

Subject(s):

Political science

DDC classification:

320.3 JOH 3rd Rev ed. C.2

Summary: The subject of Comparative Politics is becoming popular owing to the discovery of more and more sophisticated tools for understanding and explaining, what is termed, political reality. Inter-disciplinary focus on the matters of political significance has been, by and large, responsible for expanding the frontiers of Political Science in the direction of an empirical study of several uncultivated regions hitherto considered as 'non-state areas'. The result is that traditional approaches to the study of politics resting primarily on the foundations of history, ethics and law are being replaced by new approaches drawing inspiration from the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Psychology. The trend, is towards taking the study of politics to the level of a scientific enquiry into the phenomenon of power. The first edition of this book was very well recieved by the readers.It encouraged me to bring out a complete text-book so that the requirements of students and teachers engaged in the study of this subject at the degree and post-graduate levels could be fulfilled in a satisfactory manner. Perhaps all the important topics included in the syllabi of various Indian universities have been covered in this thoroughly revised and enlarged edition. Proper care has been taken to present the subject-matter in an interesting and intelligible manner. I hope that my readers will find this book worthwhile and oblige me by sending their suggestions in the light of which necessary changes may be made in the next edition or print of this book. I shall be failing in my duty if I do not record my gratitude to my friends like Dr J.S. Bains and Dr R.B. Jain of Delhi University and Prof. Frank Thakurdas (President, Indian Political Science Association, 1975), my meetings with whom have always been a source of inspiration and guidance. I like to record my thanks to my one-time teacher Dr R.K. Awasthi (now Head of the Political Studies Department and Director, Centre of Behavioural Research at Vikram University, Ujjain), who invited me to deliver a few lectures on this subject about two years ago. Likewise, I owe much to my friend Dr K.L. Kamal (Pol. Sc. Dept., Rajasthan University, Jaipur) who engaged me for delivering a series of lectures on this subject to his students assembled in Delhi for contact programmes. I am thankful to the authorities of the National Book Trust, India, who included this book in their programme and subsidised its publication.

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The subject of Comparative Politics is becoming popular owing to the discovery of more and more sophisticated tools for understanding and explaining, what is termed, political reality. Inter-disciplinary focus on the matters of political significance has been, by and large, responsible for expanding the frontiers of Political Science in the direction of an empirical study of several uncultivated regions hitherto considered as 'non-state areas'. The result is that traditional approaches to the study of politics resting primarily on the foundations of history, ethics and law are being replaced by new approaches drawing inspiration from the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Psychology. The trend, is towards taking the study of politics to the level of a scientific enquiry into the phenomenon of power.
The first edition of this book was very well recieved by the readers.It encouraged me to bring out a complete text-book so that the requirements of students and teachers engaged in the study of this subject at the degree and post-graduate levels could be fulfilled in a satisfactory manner. Perhaps all the important topics included in the syllabi of various Indian universities have been covered in this thoroughly revised and enlarged edition. Proper care has been taken to present the subject-matter in an interesting and intelligible manner. I hope that my readers will find this book worthwhile and oblige me by sending their suggestions in the light of which necessary changes may be made in the next edition or print of this book.

I shall be failing in my duty if I do not record my gratitude to my friends like Dr J.S. Bains and Dr R.B. Jain of Delhi University
and Prof. Frank Thakurdas (President, Indian Political Science Association, 1975), my meetings with whom have always been a source of inspiration and guidance. I like to record my thanks to my one-time teacher Dr R.K. Awasthi (now Head of the Political
Studies Department and Director, Centre of Behavioural Research at Vikram University, Ujjain), who invited me to deliver a few
lectures on this subject about two years ago. Likewise, I owe much to my friend Dr K.L. Kamal (Pol. Sc. Dept., Rajasthan University, Jaipur) who engaged me for delivering a series of lectures on this subject to his students assembled in Delhi for contact programmes. I am thankful to the authorities of the National Book Trust, India, who included this book in their programme and subsidised its publication.

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