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082 _a320.3 Com
100 _aRustow, Dankwart A.(ed.)
245 0 _aComparative Political Dynamics : global research perspectives
260 _aNew York
260 _bHarper Collins
260 _c1991
300 _a495 p.
520 _aWritten by leading scholars and comprised of original research, this text summarizes the field of comparative politics-past achievements, current perspectives, tasks ahead and illustrates new approaches through actual case studies. Concepts such as political development, modernization, corporatism, dependency, revolution, great reform, and democratization are discussed. In addition, the latest developments in comparative methodology, including case studies and statistics, are examined. World-wide and up-to-date,the text analyzes recent industrial policies in Western countries and Japan; economic changes in China; the forces ehind Khomeini's revolution; and the prospects for democratization in Latin America, and for glasnost and perestroika in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
650 _aComparative Government
700 _aErickson, Kenneth Paul (ed.)
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