1. Los grandes temas de la Ciencia Política. 2. La teoría política: Algunos debates contemporáneos. 3. La Ciencia Política Empírica (I): Métodos y técnicas de investigación. 4. La Ciencia Política Empírica (II): Enfoques de investigación. 5. El oder. 6. El estado y sus instituci…
This book examines the changing role of political parties and political leadership in fourteen modern democracies. As well as examining cross-national differences, it also analyses how modern democracies are increasingly following a presidential logic of governance.
Sultanistic regimes
"In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big for governments to deal with. Benjamin Barber contends that cities, and the…
Chapters emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life in a range of global contexts, with attention to whether and how those questions may be shared, contested, or reformulated across differences of time, space, and experienceAn interdisciplinary volume th…
Comparative politics
