This textbook provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of
the institutions and patterns of behaviour of the countries of the
contemporary world. The various political systems are compared and
contrasted both in general terms and according to their
characteristic structures. today, the characteristics and the role
of groups, and the effect of the communications media. It examines
in depth the origins, bases, and structures of political parties,
the type of party system and the overall role of parties in
contemporary politics. It then goes on to examine the formal
institutions, analyzing the role of constitutions, the extent of
decentralization, the characteristics of legislatures and the
structure and impact of executives and political leaders. A final
section is devoted to the part played by bureaucracies, the
military and the courts in political life and discusses the extent
to which ordinary people participate directly in politics.
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