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This book analyzes the main competing grand theories in the social sciences, including developmentalism, dependency analysis, Marxism, institutionalism, rational choice, Freudianism, environmentalism, sociobiology, neurosciences, and transitions to democracy.

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Developmentalism Then and Now: The Origins and Resurgence of an Enduring Grand Theory; K.Johnson Marxism, Dependency, and the World Systems Analysis: Are They Making a Comeback; B.Stone Political Culture: Explanatory Variable or Residual Category?; H.Meyer Sociological Approaches: Old and New in Political Sociology; A.P.Kryzanek Psychoanalysis and the Study of Political Science; S.Powell Institutions and Institutionalism; S.Sahu Rational Choice Theory: Why Irrationality Makes More Sense for Comparative Politics; J.D.J.Nakaska Environmental and Geographic Determinism: Jared Diamond and His Ideas; S.Hong Science or Ideology?: Sociobiology and Its Aftermath; M.Bayar Neuronopolitics: The Brainy Approach to Political Science; J.Dix Transitions to Democracy: Grand Theory or Grand Idea?; M.Clary Non-Western and Indigenous Theories of Change; L.Langford

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"I am most impressed with this project. It is refreshing to read a book by the next generation of scholars as they develop their positions on these fundamental views of the world and of politics. Wiarda is to be commended for this effort; he has constructed an edited volume that will get the attention of a wide readership. This text will be popular both with the graduate school community and undergraduates as well as instructors in beginning comparative politics courses looking to assign a text as supplementary reading to introduce college students to the world of the key grand theories of social science." - Michael Kryzanek, Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Center for International Engagement, Bridgewater State College

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HOWARD J. WIARDA is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of International Affairs at University of Georgia, USA.

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