Modern Comparative Politics

Contents: Preface. 1. An introduction to modern comparative. 2. Comparative methods in political research. 3. The social bases of politics. 4. Elections: the expression of democratic class struggle. 5. Different forms of government and political institutions. 6. Political culture, mass beliefs, and value change. 7. Theory of democratization and peace. 8. Social movements and contentious politics. 9. Political movement. 10. Modern political culture. 11. From archaic to modern political myth: the causes, functions and consequences. 12. Mass political mobilization. Bibliography.

"Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for graduate, post graduate and senior undergraduate students offering comparative politics as a compulsory course, this finely integrated text is by far the most comprehensive, yet concise and critical analysis of the contending approaches, methods, and models and the theory-building efforts made in the second half of this century. The book provides a lucid and up-to-date presentation of the ramifications of the governmental process and political dynamics, issues and problems relating to the structure, function, process and operation of governmental and political organizations in a genuinely comparative perspective." (jacket)