New directions in comparative politics / edited by Howard J. Wiarda - Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1991 - xiv, 274 p. / 23 cm.

Introduction : The field of comparative politics, 1. -- Comparative politics past and present, 3. -- Comparative politics : Where have we been, where are going?, 31. -- New directions in comparative politics, 43. -- A model of state - society relations, 45. -- Corporatism and comparative politics, 59. -- Typologies of democratic systems : From political inputs to political economy, 82. -- The dependency approach, 118. -- Toward a nonethnocentric theory of development : Alternative conceptions from the third world, 131. -- Alternatives appoaches to comparative politics, 154. -- Public policy and administration in comparative perspective, 170. -- Bureaucratic - authoritarianism, transitions to democracy, and the political - culture dimension, 199. -- Toward the future : Old and new directory in comparative politics, 221

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