This text contains an analysis of the key concepts, hypotheses,
and models of comparative politics. The work of key theorists is
examined. Concepts include revolution, dictatorship, political
development, legitimacy, and others. The author formulates ways in
which the key concept can be made clearer, the hypothesis can be
modified to give it more explanatory power, or the model refined so
that it approximates empirical reality more closely. Political
ideology is presented as a particular descriptive understanding of
the world, together with a prescription for desirable political
outcomes. In politics the danger comes from too much ideological
thinking, or from too little.
"The Concepts of Comparative PoliticS" is analytical, yet also
empirical. It focuses on the premise that one must have a unifying
vision, an integrated view of the world, which otherwise becomes a
chaos of unintelligible events. Yet possession of that world view
should not be carried to the point of limiting one's ability to
perceive factual situations correctly. This work is invaluable as a
text for Introduction to Comparative Politics and as a supplement
for any course in comparative politics.
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