Comparing apples and mangoes : the overpoliticized state in developing countries /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Comparing apples and mangoes
- The mischaracterization of Third World experiences
- Setting the framework: comparing apples and mangoes
- Politics and overpoliticization
- Sins of universalism and particularism
- From the behavioral revolution to modernization theory
- Democratization by institutional fiat
- Universalism from the left
- Particularism and anti-third worldism
- Particularism in South America, Asia, and Africa
- Conclusion
- Overpoliticization: empirical and historical evidence
- Overpoliticized behaviors in democratic regimes
- Overpoliticized behaviors in authoritarian regimes
- Overpoliticized behaviors common to democratic and authoritarian regimes
- Overpoliticized behaviors in Western countries
- Conclusion: differences and similarities
- Overpoliticization : quantitative evidence
- Data and procedure
- Results and interpretation
- Conclusion: differences and similarities
- Understanding the overpoliticized state
- Political institutions and the state as effects of politics
- Compromise-resistant politics and the overpoliticized state
- The liberal democratic state as the conceptual contrast
- Basic hypotheses about the overpoliticized state
- What explains liberal compromise?
- What explains overpoliticization?
- Conclusion.