Comparative politics: notes and readings

The search for focus / Roy C. Macridis

Area studies and the discipline / Robert H. Bates

Interests and ideas / Mark Blyth

The public role of political science / Robert D. Putnam

British rule in India / Karl Marx

The dynamics of modernization / Ronald Inglehart

What is new about globalization? / H.V. Savitch

What is a state? / Max Weber

Bringing the state back in / Theda Skocpol

Varieties of nationalism / Liah Greenfield

A right to secede? / Donald L. Horowitz

Territoriality and beyond / John Gerard Ruggie

Nation-state or global state? / Jürgen Habermas

Everyday global governance / Anne-Marie Slaughter

Sovereignty and democracy / Marc F. Plattner

Frameworks of the great revolutions / S.N. Eisenstadt

On revolutions : French, American, and Russian / François Furet

Nonviolent action / Kurt Schock

Revolution and anomie / Bernard E. Brown

Trouble in the advanced democracies? / Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam, and Russell J. Dalton

The new politics in advanced democracies / Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, and Bruce E. Cain

Worker democracy : a test case / Bernard E. Brown

Horizontal accountability in new democracies . Guillermo O'Donnell

The end of the transition paradigm / Thomas Carothers

Universal democracy? / Larry Diamond

On democracy and tyranny / Aristotle

What was communism? / Andrew C. Janos

The limits of bureaucratic authoritarianism / Lilia Shevtsova

Authoritarian reslience / Andrew J. Nathan

Beyond the Crusades / Lisa Wedeen

The terrorism to come / Walter Laqueur

Islam, democracy, and constitutional liberalism / Fareed Zakaria

The iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels

Species of political parties / Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond

The Americanization of the European left / Seymour Martin Lipset

The rise of new political parties / Piero Ignazi

Institutional perspectives / James March and Johan Olsen

Constitutional design for divided societies / Arend Lijphart

Judicial review / Nathan J. Brown

Governance and outcomes / Joel D. Abernach and Bert A. Rockman

Organizations and markets / Herbert Simon

In a state? / Graham Wilson

Equality versus inequality / Robert A. Dahl.