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New Comparative Government
Revised and Enlarged Edition
J.C. Johari
The study of comparative government is as old as Aristotle the celebrated ‘father of politics. But in recent times its own significance due to remarkable developments in the spheres of national and international developments in the spheres of national and international politics. The decline of the authoritarian systems and in stead spread of democracy around the world, battle between freedom and equality imparting, new meaning and dimensions to the concept of ‘power’. transformation of the Westphalian model of the nation-statenoticeable in the emergence of ‘civil society’ and in the model of ‘a transnational state’ may be referred to in particular. Global comparison have become the fashion of the day which reveal astonishing facts about the role of political dn para political institutions. Comparing institutions as such, as done be the old writers, is not so important now. What is neede is that the scope of such a venture should be widened so as to investigate and analyse the context of their actual working in the present age of liberalisation and globalisation. Human action is guided fundamentally be the institutions that the people construct and change them in response to the needs of the time. A student to this subject is, therefore, expected to comprehend and analyse political reality in the light of new developments.
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