Chapter one: Issues in comparative politics What is politics? Governments and the state of nature Why governments? When does government become the problem? Political systems States building community Fostering development Securing democracy, human rights, and civil liberties chapter two: Comparing political systems Why we compare How we compare Systems? structure and function Structures and functions An illustrative comparison: Russia in 1985 and 1998 The policy level: performance, outcome, and evaluation Part two: System, process, and policy Chapter two: Political culture and political socialization political culture Mapping the three levels of political culture Political socialization Agents of political socialization Trends in contemporary political cultures Chapter four: Interest articulation Citizen action Interest groups Access to the influential Policy perspectives on interest aryiculation Interest group development Chapter five: Interest aggregation and political parties Personal interest aggregation Institutional interest aggregation competitive party systems and interest aggregation Authoritarian party systems The military and interest aggregation Trends in interest aggregation Significance of interest aggregation Chapter six: Government and policymaking Constitutions and decisions rules Democracy and authoritarism Geographic distribution of government power Separation of government powers Limitations on government powers Assemblies political executives The bureaucracy elite recruitment control of elites Chapter seven: public policy Government and what it does Extraction Distribution Regulation Community-building and symbolic policies Outcomes: domestic welfare Domestic security outcomes International outputs and outcomes Political goods and values Strategies for producing political goods Trade-off and opportunity costs

Socializacao Politica

Articulacao de Interesses

Sistema Partidario

Elite Administrativa