Part I: A Framework for Understanding Comparative PoliticsChapter 1: Introduction The Big Issues Comparative Politics: What Is It? Why Study It? How to Study It? Three Key Questions in Comparative PoliticsChapter 2: The Modern State Characteristics of the Modern State Historical Origins of Modern States Strong, Weak, and Failed StatesChapter 3: States, Citizens, and Regimes Citizens and Civil Society Regimes, Ideologies, and CitizensChapter 4: States and Identity Understanding Identity The Policy Debate Nations and Nationalism Ethnicity Race Religion: Recognition, Autonomy, and the Secular State Gender and Sexual Orientation: The Continuing Struggle for Recognition, Social Status, and RepresentationPart II: Political Systems and How They WorkChapter 5: Governing Institutions in Democracies Executives and Legislatures Comparing Executive-Legislative Institutions Judiciary Bureaucracy FederalismChapter 6: Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies The Electoral System Formal Institutions: Political Parties and Party Systems Civil SocietyChapter 7: Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution Framing Contentious Politics Political Violence RevolutionChapter 8: Authoritarian Institutions Authoritarian Rule around the World Governing Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes Elections, Parties, and Civil Society in Authoritarian RegimesChapter 9: Regime Change The Military in Politics: Coups dÉtat Revolution DemocratizationPart III: Political Economy and PolicyChapter 10: Political Economy of Wealth The Market, Capitalism, and the State Key Economic Debates Types of Capitalist Economies Globalization: A New World Order, or Déjà Vu All Over Again?Chapter 11: Political Economy of Development What Is "Development"? Development and Globalization The Development DebateChapter 12: Public Policies When Markets Fail: Welfare, Health, and the Environment "Welfare": Social Policy in Comparative Perspective Health Care and Health Policy Environmental Problems and PolicyGlossaryIndex.