Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of briefings
- List of fact files
- List of controversies
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Key terms and concepts
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- PART I The state: origins and development
- 1 The development of the modern state
- 2 States and democracy
- 3 Democratic change and persistence
- PART II The polity: structures and institutions
- PART III Citizens, elites and interest mediation
- PART IV Policies and performance
- Postscript: How and what to compare?
- Glossary of key terms
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
3 - Democratic change and persistence
from PART I - The state: origins and development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of briefings
- List of fact files
- List of controversies
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Key terms and concepts
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- PART I The state: origins and development
- 1 The development of the modern state
- 2 States and democracy
- 3 Democratic change and persistence
- PART II The polity: structures and institutions
- PART III Citizens, elites and interest mediation
- PART IV Policies and performance
- Postscript: How and what to compare?
- Glossary of key terms
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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- Foundations of Comparative Politics , pp. 53 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009