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Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive
and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and
scholarship. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition, students now
have an even better guide to cross-national comparison and why it
matters. The new edition retains a focus on the enduring questions
with which scholars grapple, the issues about which consensus has
started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to get at the
complex problems in the field. Updates to this edition include a
new intuitive take on statistical analyses and a clearer
explanation of how to interpret regression results; a
thoroughly-revised chapter on culture and democracy that includes a
more extensive discussion of cultural modernization theory and a
new overview of survey methods for addressing sensitive topics; and
a revised chapter on dictatorships that incorporates a
principal-agent framework for understanding authoritarian
institutions. Examples from the gender and politics literature have
been incorporated into various chapters, and empirical examples and
data on various types of institutions have been updated. The
authors have thoughtfully streamlined chapters to better focus
attention on key topics. Explore online resources:
https://edge.sagepub.com/principlescp3e
Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of
Comparative Politics, Third Edition, Foundations of Comparative
Politics presents a scientific approach to the rich world of
comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing students
with a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters to
them. This condensed, accessible format introduces students to the
key questions in comparative politics, using brief insights from
tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to help them
understand clearly why some explanations for political phenomena
are stronger than others.
Adapted from the groundbreaking Principles of Comparative Politics,
now in its third edition, Foundations of Comparative Politics
presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative
inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing students a guide to
cross-national comparison and why it matters to them. Foundations
introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics
using tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to
help them understand clearly why some explanations for political
phenomena are stronger than others. The core material of Principles
has been condensed by almost 40% into a briefer, more accessible
format that not only resonates with students but also allows
instructors to more easily cover all material in a single semester.
Fourteen chapters have been updated and pared down to present only
the most necessary information enhanced with plentiful visual
features and connections to real-world examples.
The radical interdependence between humans who live together makes
virtually all human behavior conditional. The behavior of
individuals is conditional upon the expectations of those around
them, and those expectations are conditional upon the rules
(institutions) and norms (culture) constructed to monitor, reward,
and punish different behaviors. As a result, nearly all hypotheses
about humans are conditional – conditional upon the resources
they possess, the institutions they inhabit, or the cultural
practices that tell them how to behave. Interaction Models provides
a stand-alone, accessible overview of how interaction models, which
are frequently used across the social and natural sciences, capture
the intuition behind conditional claims and context dependence. It
also addresses the simple specification and interpretation errors
that are, unfortunately, commonplace. By providing a comprehensive
and unified introduction to the use and critical evaluation of
interaction models, this book shows how they can be used to test
theoretically-derived claims of conditionality.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated to include an
intuitive take on statistical analyses and a clearer explanation of
how to interpret regression results. There is a revised chapter on
culture and democracy that includes a more extensive discussion of
cultural modernization theory and a new overview of survey methods
for addressing sensitive topics. Examples from the gender and
politics literature have been incorporated into various chapters,
and empirical examples and data on various types of institutions
have been updated.
The radical interdependence between humans who live together makes
virtually all human behavior conditional. The behavior of
individuals is conditional upon the expectations of those around
them, and those expectations are conditional upon the rules
(institutions) and norms (culture) constructed to monitor, reward,
and punish different behaviors. As a result, nearly all hypotheses
about humans are conditional – conditional upon the resources
they possess, the institutions they inhabit, or the cultural
practices that tell them how to behave. Interaction Models provides
a stand-alone, accessible overview of how interaction models, which
are frequently used across the social and natural sciences, capture
the intuition behind conditional claims and context dependence. It
also addresses the simple specification and interpretation errors
that are, unfortunately, commonplace. By providing a comprehensive
and unified introduction to the use and critical evaluation of
interaction models, this book shows how they can be used to test
theoretically-derived claims of conditionality.
An original, empirically supported explanation of the domestic
consequences of recent changes in the global economy While much has
been made of recent changes in the international economy, the
mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not
fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not
Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and
revisionist globalization theorists with his assertion that
increased financial integration has led to neither a widening nor a
narrowing of partisan differences in macroeconomic policies and
outcomes. Clark shows that the absence of partisan differences is a
long-standing feature of democratic capitalist societies, arising
from policymakers' attempts to use the economy to guarantee their
political survival. Structural changes such as increased capital
mobility and central bank independence do not necessarily diminish
politicians' ability to control the economy, but they do shape the
range of available strategies. In a world of highly mobile capital,
politicians use monetary policy to create macroeconomic expansions
prior to elections only if the exchange rate is flexible and the
central bank is subservient. But they use fiscal policy to induce
favorable business cycles when the exchange rate is fixed or the
central bank is independent. By considering how capital mobility,
the exchange rate regime, and central bank independence limit the
range of incentives available to policymakers, Clark shows that
macroeconomic policies and outcomes are tied to the electoral
calendar rather than to the prevailing ideology.
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