INTRODUCTION:ON COMPARING NATIONS

CHAPTER ONE METHODS OF COMPARISON

1．COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS:THE SEARCH FOR FOCUS ROY C.MACRIDIS

2．AREA STUDIES AND THEDISCIPLINE ROBERT H.BATES

3．PRECONCEPTION VS.OBSERVATION CHALMERS JOHNSON

4．RATIONAL CHOICE,CULTURE AND PROBLEM ORIENTED RESEARCH IAN SHAPIRO

PART ONE.POLITICAL CHANGE

CHAPTER TWO MODERNIZATION AND POSTMODERNIZATION

5．THE DYNAMICS OF MODERNIZATION SAMUEL H.BEER

6．THE CREATION OF KNOWL EDGE AND TECHNIQUE DAVID LANDES

7．BRITISH RULE IN INDIA KARL MARX

8．VAL UES,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL CHANGE RONALD INGLEHART

9．AN ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVE J.ANN TlCKNER

CHAPTER THREE REVOLUTION AND PROTEST

10．FRAMEWORKS OF THE GREAT REVOL UTIONS S.N.EISENSTADT

11．SOCIAL TRANSFORMATlONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ALAIN TOURAINE

12．REVOLUTION AND ANOMIE BERNARD E.BROWN

13．DEMMCCRACY,UTOPIA AND REVOLUTlON FRANCOIS FURET

PART TWO.PATTERNS OF LEGITIMACY

CHAPTER FOUR ETHNICITY,NATION,STATE

14．VARIETIES OF NATIONALISM LIAH GREENFELD

15．WHAT ISASTATE？MAX WEBER

16．BRINGING THE STATE BACK IN THEDA SKOCPOL

17．PRISONERS OF THE STATE CHARLES TILLY

CHAPTER FIVE DEMOCRACIES

18．HORIZONTAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN NEW DEMOCRACIES GUILLERMO O'DONNELL19．MAJORITARIAN VERSUS CONSENSUAL DEMOCRACY AREND LIJPHART

20．DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION CAROLE PATEMAN

21．WORKER DEMOCRACY:A TEST CASE BERNARD E.BROWN

CHAPTER SIX TRANSIT IONS TO DEMOCRACY

22．THE FUTURE OF THE THIRD WAVE SAMUEL P.HUNTINGTON

23．COMPARING EAST AND SOUTH VALERIE BUNCE

24．ISLAM AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY BERNARD LEWIS

PART THREE.POLITICAL DYNA MICS

CHAPTER SEVEN THE CIVIL SOCIETY

25．FROM GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNANCE GERRY STOKER

26．BOWLING ALONE ROBERT D.PUTNAM

27．THE PARADOX OF CIVIL SOCIETY MICHAEL W.FOLEY and BOB EDWARDS

CHAPTER EIGHT POLITICAL PARTIES

28．THE IRON LAW OF OLIGARCHY ROBERT MICHELS

29．LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE IN PARTY SYSTEMS KLAUS VON BEYME

30．EROSION OF THE CLASS AND RELIGIOUS VOTE MATTEI DOGAN

31．THE RISE OF NEW POLITICAL PARTIES PIERO lGNAZI

PART FOUR.POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER NINE DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER？

32．INSTITUTlONAL PERSPECTIVES JAMES MARCH and JOHAN OLSEN

33．PRESIDENTIAL VS.PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY:A DEBATE

A.THE PERILS OF PRESIDENTIALISM JUAN J.LINZ

B.COMPARING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DONALD L.HOROWITZ

C.A FINAL COMMENT JUAN J.LINZ

34．GOVERNANCE AND PERFORMANCE JOEL D.ABERBACH and BERT A.ROCKMAN

35．JUDICIAL REVIEW AND THE ARAB WORLD NATHAN I.BROWN

CHAPTER TEN POLITICAL PERFORMANCE

36．POLICY PARADIGMS,SOCIAL LEARNING,AND THE STATE PETER A.HALL

37．EQUALITY VERSUS INEQUALITY ROBERT A.DAHL

38．CORRUPTION AND SHIFTING VALUES YVES M？NY

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