Table of Contents

Introduction: Reflections on 'Problem Selection' in Comparative Politics
I. The State and Society
1: The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role Expansion
2: Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and 'Organic Statist' Approaches to the State
3: State Power and the Strength of Civil Society in the Southern Cone of Latin America
4: Military Politics in Three Polity Arenas: Civil Society, Political Society, and the State
II. Constructing and Deconstructing Polities: Contexts, Capacities and Identities
5: Paths Toward Redemocratization: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations
6: Political Crafting of Democratic Consolidation or Destruction: European and South American Comparisons (with Juan J. Linz)
7: On the Tasks of a Democratic Opposition
8: Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory
9: Modern Multi-National Democracies: Transcending a Gellnerian Oxymoron
10: Political Identities and Electoral Sequences: Spain, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia (with Juan J. Linz)
11: The World s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the Twin Tolerations
III. The Meta-frameworks of Democratic Governance and Democratic States
12: Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism (with Cindy Skach)
13: The French Fifth Republic: A Model for Import? Reflections on Poland and Brazil (with Ezra N. Suleiman)
14: Toward Consolidated Democracies (with Juan J. Linz)
15: Toward a New Comparative Analysis of Democracy and Federalism: 'Demos Constraining' and 'Demos Enabling' Federations

About the Author

Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. In his career he has also been Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University, the first Rector of Central European University, and the Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.

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