ABSTRACT
The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, this reference utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, the book compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide. With contributions from over 30 international policy experts and academicians and containing over 1200 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book is an insightful resource for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and students in these disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|19 pages
Growing Inequalities and Dangers to Democracy in Ultramodern Society
Some Policy Implications
chapter 9|19 pages
Elections and the Democratic Project in Africa
Precepts, Practices, and the Future
chapter 11|18 pages
Regional Voting in New Democracies
The Case of South Korea from a Comparative Perspective
chapter 13|39 pages
Leadership Conceptions of Local Elites
Across the Taiwan Strait—A Cultural Analysis
chapter 16|12 pages
Role and Performance of Indian Parliament in the Process of Democratization
A Case Study of Panchayati Raj System
chapter 18|16 pages
Political Culture or Politicized Culture?
Comparing Democracies in South and Southeast Asia*
chapter 21|19 pages
Explaining Ideological Swings in Western Democracies
A Comparative Analysis, 1952-1989
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chapter 23|20 pages
Dissolution of the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Federations
A Lose-Lose Policy Outcome?
chapter 27|33 pages
Why Have Brazilian Legislators Decided to "Clean Up Their Sidewalks"?
The Influence of the Brazilian Political Institutions on the Process of State Reform
