BOOK SUMMARY OF NEW COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT
The study of comparative government is as old as Aristotle- the celebrated
'father of politics.' But in recent times it has assumed its own significance
due to remarkable development in the spheres of national and international
politics. The decline of the authoritarian systems and instead spread of
democracy around the world, battle between freedom and equality importing new
meaning and dimensions to the concept of 'power', transformation of the
Westphalian model of the nation – state noticeable in the emergence of 'civil
society' and in the model of a trans-national state' may be referred to in
particular. Global comparisons have