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Test Bank for Introducing Comparative Politics The Essentials Orvis
Downloadable Instructor Test Bank for Introducing Comparative Politics The Essentials By Stephen Orvis, Carol Ann Drogus, ISBN: 9781506385693, ISBN: 9781544344409, ISBN: 9781544354293
Table Of Content
The Big Issues
Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It?
Three Key Questions in Comparative Politics
Characteristics of the Modern State
Historical Origins of Modern States
Strong, Weak, and Failed States
Citizens and Civil Society
Regimes, Ideologies, and Citizens
Understanding Identity
The Policy Debate
Nations and Nationalism
Ethnicity
Race
Religion: Recognition, Autonomy, and the Secular State
Gender and Sexual Orientation: The Continuing Struggle for Recognition, Social Status, and Representation
Executives and Legislatures
Comparing Executive-Legislative Institutions
Judiciary
Bureaucracy
Federalism
The Electoral System
Formal Institutions: Political Parties and Party Systems
Civil Society
Framing Contentious Politics
Political Violence
Revolution
Authoritarian Rule around the World
Governing Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes
Elections, Parties, and Civil Society in Authoritarian Regimes
The Military in Politics: Coups d’État
Revolution
The Market, Capitalism, and the State
Key Economic Debates
Types of Capitalist Economies
What Is “Development”?
Development and Globalization
The Development Debate
“Welfare”: Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
Health Care and Health Policy
