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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Comparative politics</title>
    <subTitle>the quest for theory and explanation</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mayer, Lawrence C.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Sloan Pub.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xiii, 183 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Comparative politics as a field of study -- The contextual foundation of advanced industrial democracies -- The constitutionally designated format of modern democracies -- Political parties and party systems -- The third wave of democratization -- Political change and modernization -- Conclusions : an evolving field in a changing world.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Lawrence C. Mayer.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Comparative government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Democracy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Democratization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <geographic>Developing countries</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">JF51 .M3745 2007</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">1597380024</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781597380027</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2006927113</identifier>
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