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Comparing apples and mangoes the overpoliticized state in developing countries
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Comparing apples and mangoes [electronic resource] : the overpoliticized state in developing countries / S.N. Sangmpam.
ISBN
9780791479995
0791471136 (alk. paper)
9780791471135 (alk. paper)
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 335 p. :) ill. ;
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation Collection
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and index.
Contents
Comparing apples and mangoes
The mischaracterization of Third World experiences
Setting the framework: comparing apples and mangoes
Politics and overpoliticization
Sins of universalism and particularism
From the behavioral revolution to modernization theory
Democratization by institutional fiat
Universalism from the left
Particularism and anti-third worldism
Particularism in South America, Asia, and Africa
Conclusion
Overpoliticization: empirical and historical evidence
Overpoliticized behaviors in democratic regimes
Overpoliticized behaviors in authoritarian regimes
Overpoliticized behaviors common to democratic and authoritarian regimes
Overpoliticized behaviors in Western countries
Conclusion: differences and similarities
Overpoliticization : quantitative evidence
Data and procedure
Results and interpretation
Conclusion: differences and similarities
Understanding the overpoliticized state
Political institutions and the state as effects of politics
Compromise-resistant politics and the overpoliticized state
The liberal democratic state as the conceptual contrast
Basic hypotheses about the overpoliticized state
What explains liberal compromise?
What explains overpoliticization?
Conclusion.
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