Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines the most prominent political ideologies of modern time.

This book offers the first clear and wide-rangingoverview of the putative decline of ideology, a conceptburdened by a history of emotional argumentation.Changes in the function of ideology in the Soviet Union,the United States, Western ...

Three interrelated objectives provide the subject of this study: to cover a wide range of topics on leaders and leadership; to present up-to-date treatments of those topics; and to offer extensive bibliographies for further study and ...

Focusing on 45 military leaders from four continents and 13 countries, spread across four centuries, this study paints, for the first time, a collective, comparative portrait of high-ranking military officers.

This study seeks to resolve differences between various types of political leaders and to link broad historical patterns with the idiosyncratic circumstances of individual lives and careers--to integrate the micro and the macro levels of ...

Den politiske revolutions definition, typologi og startegi bl.a. belyst med eksempler fra Bolivia 1952, Nordvietnam i 1940'erne og Frankrig 1968.

What social backgrounds do political leaders exhibit? Are all leaders fundamentally alike or do we find important differences between them? These and related questions concerning political leadership are examined in this unique new work.