Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
Mengingat bahwa buku ini ditulis berdasarkan catatan harian beliau dan komentar berbagai surat kabar nasional pada masa itu maka buku ini seolah- olah merupakan rekaman ulang sebuah realitas politik yang amat mencekam saat itu. Meskipun demikian sisi-sisi kelembutan, ditengah-tengah ketegasan sikapnya, seorang anak bangsa yang bernama B. J. Habibie sangat jelas tergambarkan pula di dalam buku…
An account of the party systems that have evolved in Eastern Europe since the revolutions of the late 1980s. The new political systems of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria are analyzed and compared, along with the most recent developments in East Germany
Selama dua dasawarsa terakhir ini, isu tentang kelas me- nengah semakin mendapat tempat dalam kajian-kajian politik di Indonesia. Meningkatnya perhatian terhadap masalah kelas menengah tampaknya sejalan dengan perkem- bangan kapitalisme sendiri yang semakin matang di Indone- sia. Setelah sebelumnya perhatian lebih banyak dicurahkan untuk mengamati terbentuknya kelas pemodal, maka kini banyak sa…
This book is many things. On one level, it is a defense of what has come to be called derisively the “area studies” approach to Japanese politics. This work is therefore part of an ongoing debate within the discipline of political science and the subfield of Japanese political studies about the proper way to study political institutions and behavior. There is no modeling, little in the way…
This comprehensive volume examines the workings of the government and politics of Japan. it provides a macro view of the central government. the bicameral parliament and civil service bureaucracy and of how these various instutions work together to create teh laws and policies of the nation
This clearcut volume offers a unique, thematic treatment of the Chinese political system as it has developed since the Communist takeover in 1949. Author Suzanne Ogden provides a focused, conceptual perspective on the interactional elements of politics/ideology, development, and culture, and maintains a unifying perspective and the ability of China to resolve its problems.
Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. This study argues that both Korea and the Philippines experienced significant corruption…
Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization processes that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in…
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal democracy was supposed to fill the void left by Soviet Communism. Poland and Czechoslovakia made the best of reforms, but the citizens of the "Evil Empire" itself saw little of the promised freedom, and more of the same old despots and corruption. Recently, a second wave of reforms Serbia in 2000, Georgia …