Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes

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Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes

• CHAPTER ONE

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Centuries and Decades of Change

1. comparisons of domestic politics
2. controversy
3. confusion

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Introduction Profiles of Three Leaders

1. Koizumi Junichiro, Japan
2. Vladimir Putin, Russia
3. Vincente Fox, Mexico

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The State Power

• Five Critical Definitions
• Power
• Government
• State
• Nation National Identity
• Regime

• Classification of States
• Industrialized democracies
• Current former Communist Regimes
• The Third World

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The State Power Cont.

1. Limits on the power of states
2. Characteristics of weak and strong states

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Comparative Analysis

• Looking for Dynamic Patterns

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Comparative Analysis

• A. The Role Paucity of Theory

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B. Patterns in Political Systems

1. Inputs the supports for and demands on the
   system (political culture, politcs, and
   lobbying).
2. Decision making the leadership in action, using
   the structure of the state.
3. Outputs public policy regulating behavior,
   distributing resources or serving as symbols (an
   output might be inaction)

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B. Patterns in Political Systems (cont)

• Feedback
• Reactions to policy
• Results of policy
• Reporting on policy and decision-making
• Feedback as another input to the system

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C. In the Environments of Political Systems

1. Historical forces that limit or enable state
   power
2. The assets and liabilities of society, the
   economy, and geography
3. Global forces impinging on the state

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D. In the Political Systems Relationship with
Other Political Systems

1. Allies, trading partners, rivals, and enemies
2. Interactions with international organizations
   (political and economic)

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E. In Historical and Contemporary Factors
Impinging on the State

1. Imperialism
2. State and Nation Building
3. Economic Globalization (and the end of the Cold
   War)
4. Domestic Politics (the contest between state
   power and individual autonomy is usually viewed
   as a zero sum game)

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Five Themes to Follow

• Conflict
• Democratization
• Economic Liberalization
• Globalization
• Challenging the State

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Table 1.1 Basic Data
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Figure 1.1 The Political System
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Figure 1.2 The Impact of Global and Domestic
Forces on the State