Suchergebnisse

Dieser Klassiker unter den Einführungen wurde für die 8. Auflage vollständig neu überarbeitet. Konzipiert ist der Band für einen Bachelor-Grundkurs. Er vermittelt das gesamte Basiswissen für das Studium der Politikwissenschaft. Besonderes Anliegen ist es, die Grundzüge des Fachs im Ganzen wie in seinen verschiedenen Teildisziplinen vorzustellen.

This book approaches current controversies concerning qualitative and quantitative procedures in the social sciences and incorporates new methods showing how they can supplement each other. It is based on a comprehensive international research project that readers can apply to their findings through the data set provided on the author's home page.

Problems of democratization, its successes, failures and future prospects, belong to the most pressing concerns of our times. Empirical democratic theory has received many new impulses since the last wave of democratization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Southeast and East Asia. In this volume the state of the art in this respect is discussed by leading international experts in this field including Laurence Whitehead, Gerardo Munck, Axel Hadenius and Juan Linz.

From the contents:

Some significant recent developments in the field of Democratization
Concepts, measurements and sub-types in Democratization Research
Agendas, findings, challenges
Successes and failures of the new democracies
Some thoughts on the victory and future of democracy