
2022
Paperback
401-500 Pages
Tapan Biswal
9789380644288
Politics
First
LAXMI PUBLICATIONS(P) LTD
English
India
Name : Comparative Politics
Author : Tapan Biswal
Book Format : Paperback
Edition : First
Genre : Politics
ISBN : 9789380644288
Language : English
Pages : 401-500 Pages
Publish Year : 2022
Publisher : LAXMI PUBLICATIONS(P) LTD
ABOUT THE BOOK :
The world is beset with extreme conflicting realities. Inhuman slave trade and the scramble for colonies coexisted, while liberal values were sweeping across the Western world. In contemporary times, the Rule of Law coexists with extreme forms of oppressive regimes in the matter of governance. Globalization, which profoundly professes the promotion of a universal global economic order, coexists with highly volatile, fragile and crumbling economic realities such as extreme forms of deprivation and marginalization of the majority.
This textbook endeavours to trace the transition from an aristocratic social order, deeply laced with the concept of hierarchy, to a democratic order based on equality. Invoking equality as the norm for establishing a new legal and political order has not wiped out the traces of hierarchical order in the contemporary world. Events like the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Tiananmen Square and Tahrir Square to the silent revolution by Aung San Suu Kyi are testimony to the efforts to lay the labyrinth for equality and usher in an egalitarian world.
The book Comparative Politics : Institutions and Processes is carefully crafted and constructed around the subject areas that unfold the history and evolution of varied kinds of institutional arrangements in the developing, underdeveloped and developed countries and the different poli
Country of Origin : India
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