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Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes

This chapter explores the transformations and challenges faced by political systems across the world, focusing on the profiles of leaders from Japan, Russia, and Mexico. It examines key concepts, such as power, government, state, nation, and national identity, and analyzes the characteristics of weak and strong states. The chapter also discusses patterns in political systems, including inputs, decision-making, outputs, and feedback. It further explores the influences of historical forces, societal assets and liabilities, global forces, and relationships with other political systems. The chapter concludes by highlighting five themes to follow: conflict, democratization, economic liberalization, globalization, and challenging the state.

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Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes

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  1. Seeking New Lands, Seeing with New Eyes CHAPTER ONE

  2. Centuries and Decades of Change • comparisons of domestic politics • controversy • confusion

  3. Introduction: Profiles of Three Leaders • Koizumi Junichiro, Japan • Vladimir Putin, Russia • Vincente Fox, Mexico

  4. Five Critical Definitions Power Government State Nation & National Identity Regime Classification of States Industrialized democracies Current & former Communist Regimes The Third World The State & Power

  5. The State & Power Con’t. • Limits on the power of states • Characteristics of weak and strong states

  6. Comparative Analysis Looking for Dynamic Patterns

  7. Comparative Analysis A. The Role & Paucity of Theory

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

  9. B. Patterns in Political Systems (con’t) • Feedback • Reactions to policy • Results of policy • Reporting on policy and decision-making • Feedback as another input to the system

  10. C. In the Environments of Political Systems • Historical forces that limit or enable state power • The assets and liabilities of society, the economy, and geography • Global forces impinging on the state

  11. D. In the Political System’s Relationship with Other Political Systems • Allies, trading partners, rivals, and enemies • Interactions with international organizations (political and economic)

  12. E. In Historical and Contemporary Factors Impinging on the State • Imperialism • State and Nation Building • Economic Globalization (and the end of the Cold War) • Domestic Politics (the contest between state power and individual autonomy is usually viewed as a zero sum game)

  13. Five Themes to Follow • Conflict • Democratization • Economic Liberalization • Globalization • Challenging the State

  14. Table 1.1 Basic Data

  15. Figure 1.1 The Political System

  16. Figure 1.2 The Impact of Global and Domestic Forces on the State

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