Reviews for The Founding Principles of the United States, Volume 2

The average rating for The Founding Principles of the United States, Volume 2 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-04 00:00:00 Lewis Laska This is an excellent collection of essays including work by such major contributors to the field of comparative politics as Arend Lijphart, Alfred Stepan, and Juan Linz. One of the approaches of the book was to take prominent scholars of comparative politics and introduce them to the Indian case, including field research in country. The book also includes work by Indian scholars who, in turn, more thoroughly studies the US case. The intro essay by the project's coordinator (Bajpai) rightly notes the following: 1. India is a major case that deserves greater attention within comparative politics if anything because of its size. Its remarkable ability to develop and sustain a democracy with such a diverse population especially underscores its desirability as a case for study. 2. The United States is underrepresented as a case in comparative politics (something the project I am currently working on seeks to help rectify!) and therefore there is value in placing the US in the center of a comparative work. 3. There are key reasons to specifically compare the US and India. Both are large democracies. Indeed, they are the two largest in population (India, #1 and the US #2) and two of three largest in land area (#2 the US and #3 India--Canada is #1). The book is interesting for a variety of reasons beyond those noted above. It provides information relevant to democratic development and to the study of federalism.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-13 00:00:00 Alan Peters A must read for anyone who loves politics. And it should be required reading for anyone who is staunchly Republican or Democrat. A great reminder that neither political party is always right, and neither one is evil. (Okay, well, maybe BOTH are a bit evil...)