Comparative Government: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-l
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Survey of the Field of Comparative Government....Pages 3-9
The Political System....Pages 10-14
The Functional Aspects of Political Systems....Pages 15-20
Choices Between Political Systems....Pages 21-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
National Political Development: Measurement and Analysis....Pages 29-41
Implications of Social Mobilization for the Politics of Development....Pages 42-51
Social Conflict, Legitimacy, and Democracy....Pages 52-59
Interest Articulation Structures: Interest ‘Groups’....Pages 60-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Toward a Comparative Study of Political Parties....Pages 69-76
The Concept of Membership....Pages 77-85
The Political Party as a Modernizing Instrument....Pages 86-95
Bases of Parties....Pages 96-104
Oligarchy in Leadership....Pages 105-111
Personalization of Power....Pages 112-116
Mass Parties and Industrialised Societies....Pages 117-126
Mass Parties and Types of Modern Societies....Pages 127-137
Electoral Systems and Party Systems: The Duverger Doctrine....Pages 138-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The ‘Living’ Constitution: Shadow and Substance....Pages 145-159
Structures of Government....Pages 160-169
The Decline of Legislatures?....Pages 170-175
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Chief Executives and Cabinet Systems....Pages 176-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The General Characteristics of Totalitarian Dictatorship....Pages 187-199
Totalitarian Policies to Resist Disintegration....Pages 200-207
The Military in the Politics of Today....Pages 208-216
The Bureaucratic Mind....Pages 217-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Political Opposition in Western Democracies....Pages 229-234
The Future of Democratic Society....Pages 235-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-270