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This crucial new ebook brings jointly global category students to supply a totally new comparative politics textual content. It deals a finished reivew of the full democratic technique and offers a framework for measuring and comparing modern democracy and democratic functionality all over the world.
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And in a more theoretical vein, a debate arose on the issue to what degree totalitarian systems were themselves a product of modernity. This point had been strongly argued by Carl J. Friedrich, who saw in that characteristic the fundamental difference between older systems of autocracy and royal absolutism and modern totalitarian systems (Friedrich, 1954; Friedrich and Brzezinski, 1956), but was denied by scholars like Wittfogel who saw many common features between the systems described by him in his Oriental Despotism (1957) and systems of modern totalitarian rule.
What we do contend, however, and will stress throughout this book is the idea that the interactions between actors and institutions are crucial for explaining the working and quality of representative democracies, rather than the behaviour of political actors per se or their rational (selfinterested) motives as such. e. g. measures and expenditures) across polities and over time (Putnam, 1993: 8–9). In accordance with the new institutionalist approach we see political decisions and policy-formation in whole or in part as being derived from political institutions and thus as ‘irretrievable sources of political action’ (Héritier, 1998: 33).
8 A parallel debate arose on the extent to which political parties – notably Socialist ones (see Castles, 1978; Schmidt, 1982b; Keman, 1988, 1990) – did affect government policies or not (see Chapter 9 of this book). g. Katzenstein, 1985), which could only be solved by comparative inquiry. g. the proponents of a World Systems approach mentioned earlier). A second major factor was the development of ‘neo-corporatism’. g. Schmitter, 1974, reprinted in Schmitter and Lehmbruch, 1979), it won great acclaim in attempts to explain ‘Europe’, and possible differences within it.