List of figures ix
List of tables x
Acknowledgments xii
Map xiv
Part One : Introduction 1
1. Why Poltics? Why Comparative? 3
2. Democracy and Its Rivals 31
Part Two: Environment and Development 67
3. The Global Environment 69
4. The Social Sources of Power 93
5. The Economic Sources of Power 124
Part Three: Demands, Support and Decissionmaking 149
6. How Demands are Presented 151
7. How Voters are Made to Choose 181
8. Inside yhe Black Box 216
Part Four: System Maintenance and Political Change 245
9. Maintaining the System 247
10. Force and Military Intervention 272
11. Violence and Political Change 297
Bibliography 321
Index 341