With an accessible, descriptive approach and an easy-to-use, three-part structure within each chapter--political development, process and institutions, and policy--this is a flexible text that is about 25% less expensive than similar texts. Instead of focusing on one perspective to the exclusion of others, Introduction to Comparative Government exposes students to multiple approaches. For example, Chapter 1 proposes a number of alternative classifications of political systems and a general context that allows the systems to be compared in different ways. Instructors and students can choose the comparative approach that they think is most helpful for understanding the whole or parts of political systems. In addition to offering a flexible and inclusive theoretical approach, Introduction to Comparative Government offers nine country study chapters and two region study chapters, each written by a specialist in that area. Each country study chapter has been thoroughly updated, and a new chapter on the Middle East (Ch. 9) has been added to help students better understand the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.

Introduction to Comparative Government, Fifth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Fewsmith, Joseph

McNelly, Theodore

Needler, Martin C.

Kanet, Roger E.

Politics & Government

Longman Pub. Group

With an accessible, descriptive approach and an easy-to-use, three-part structure within each chapter, this is a flexible comparative text that is about 25% less expensive than its competitors.

Introduction to Comparative Government, Update Edition (5th Edition)

Kommers, Donald

Brown, Bernard E.

McAdams, A. James

CURTIS, Michael

Blondel, Jean

Reshetar, John S.

Wright, Stephen

Longman

The extensively revised edition of the well-known textbook originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1963, this historical and comparative description of Japan's political institutions stresses the importance of the Chinese, European, and American models that have influenced constitutional changes. Complete with bibliographies, charts, tables, and maps, this book provides a clear, vivid description of Japan's institutions and political processes.

Politics and government in Japan (Contemporary government series)

Legal Theory & Systems

Houghton/Mifflin

The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution

In The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution, Theodore McNelly describes and analyzes the American draft of Japan's postwar constitution, Japanese influences on the document, and its adoption by the Imperial Diet. Providing a general overview of the process of the enactment of the democratic constitution in Japan, McNelly then analyzes conflicts among rival Japanese groups, the effects of the war-ban provision on Japan's security, and General MacArthur's shifting views on the achievement of world peace. The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution addresses the argument regarding U.S. "imposition" of the constitution on Japan with emphasis on the origins of the "no-war, no-arms" clause as well as the ideological, strategic, and historical background of the clause. Written by a former member of MacArthur's staff in Tokyo, this book will be of interest to the general reader as well as specialists seeking hitherto unpublished information and interpretations of this significant historical event.

University Press of America

In The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution, Theodore McNelly describes and analyzes the American draft of Japan's postwar constitution, Japanese influences on the document, and its adoption by the Imperial Diet. Providing a general overview of the process of the enactment of the democratic constitution in Japan, McNelly then analyzes conflicts among rival Japanese groups, the effects of the war-ban provision on Japan's security, and General MacArthur's shifting views on the achievement of world peace. The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution addresses the argument regarding U.S. 'imposition' of the constitution on Japan with emphasis on the origins of the 'no-war, no-arms' clause as well as the ideological, strategic, and historical background of the clause. Written by a former member of MacArthur's staff in Tokyo, this book will be of interest to the general reader as well as specialists seeking hitherto unpublished information and interpretations of this significant historical event.

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Politics and Government in Japan

Disarmament and civilian control in Japan: A constitutional dilemma (Occasional papers/reprints series in contemporary Asian studies)

School of Law, University of Maryland

Witness to the Twentieth Century: The Life Story of a Japan Specialist

In his autobiography Theodore McNelly describes his experiences as a student of music and French and how he ultimately become a leading American authority on Japanese politics and the Japanese constitution. As a child he acquired an interest in Japanese culture from his mother, who had been born in Japan of American missionary parents. His grandfather explained to him Japan's imperial constitution, adopted in 1889 during the grandfather's residence in Japan. Professor McNelly's first cousin twice removed, Edwin L. Conger, was the U.S. minister to China during the tumultuous Boxer Rebellion in 1900. His mother, a choir director and teacher of piano and voice, taught music to all four of her children. McNelly describes his experience as clarinetist in a boys band that gave concerts one summer on Mackinac Island and describnes the music that the band played. McNelly's father was a public school administrator, and the autobiography gives a notion of how the family, which included four children, was able to sustain a middle class style of life despite the the father's death at an early age and the Great Depression. When his high school performed the Mikado, Theodore sang the role of Pooh Bah, and later, at the All-State High School Music Clinic, his performance as an operatic singer won him a four-year scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin. At the university he sang leading roles in The Merry Widow and The Beggar's Opera. After only three years of high school and college French, McNelly won the title role in Anatole France's play Crainquebille. In his junior year, he played a lead role in Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, and won the Médaille de bronze of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for excellence in French language and literature. He earned an M.A. in French at Wisconsin, and taught French and English at Kemper Military School. McNelly discusses, on the basis of his training and experience, the relative merits of different approaches to the teaching of foreign languages. During the war with Japan, he was recruited by the U.S. Signal Intelligence Service, where he was trained in cryptanalysis and Japanese language. He describes codes and ciphers and the science of cryptanalysis. He helped to translate Japanese coded communications making possible the virtually complete destruction of Japanese shipping. After the war McNelly became an analyst in the civil intelligence section of General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters, thus acquainting himself with the intricacies of subtleties of Japanese politics. At Columbia University he earned a Ph.D. in political science and Asian studies. His professors, Hugh Borton and Sir George Sansom, had been the principal American and British authors of Allied policies for the occupation of Japan. Under their authoritative direction, McNelly wrote his doctoral dissertation, which until 1991 was the only book-length description and analysis in English of the formulation of Japan's postwar democratic constitution. He was a consultant to the Japanese government's Commission on the Constitution. For seven years in the 1950s McNelly taught college courses in politics and history at American military bases in Germany, France, England, Japan, Okinawa, and Korea, making side trips to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. He describes the effects of World War II on the people of those countries and the reaction in Japan to the emperor's promulgation of a new democratic constitution. McNelly provides his interpretation of the collapse of the Fourth Republic while he was stationed in France. He gives a candid account of his life as a peripatetic bachelor before his marriage to the love of his life at the age of forty. McNelly has taught at Washington University (St. Louis) and Columbia University. During his thirty-year career as a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, he has received numerous grants for research in Japan, and le

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Xlibris, Corp.

In his autobiography Theodore McNelly describes his experiences as a student of music and French and how he ultimately become a leading American authority on Japanese politics and the Japanese constitution.  As a child he acquired an interest in Japanese culture from his mother, who had been born in Japan of American missionary parents.  His grandfather explained to him Japan's imperial constitution, adopted in 1889 during the grandfather's residence in Japan.  Professor McNelly's first cousin twice removed, Edwin L. Conger, was the U.S. minister to China during the tumultuous Boxer Rebellion in 1900.  His mother, a choir director and teacher of piano and voice, taught music to all four of her children. McNelly describes his experience as clarinetist in a boys band that gave concerts one summer on Mackinac Island and describnes the music that the band played.  McNelly's father was a public school administrator, and the autobiography gives a notion of how the family, which included four children, was able to sustain a middle class style of life despite the the father's death at an early age and the  Great Depression.   When his high school performed the Mikado, Theodore sang the role of Pooh Bah, and later, at the All-State High School Music Clinic, his performance as an operatic singer won him a four-year scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin.  At the university he sang leading roles in The Merry Widow and The Beggar's Opera.   After only three years of high school and college French, McNelly won the title role in Anatole France's play Crainquebille.  In his junior year, he played a lead role in Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, and won the Médaille de bronze of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for excellence in French language and literature.  He earned an M.A. in French at Wisconsin, and taught French and English at Kemper Military School.  McNelly discusses, on the basis of his training and experience, the relative merits of different approaches to the teaching of foreign languages.   During the war with Japan, he was recruited by the U.S. Signal Intelligence Service, where he was trained in cryptanalysis and Japanese language.  He describes codes and ciphers and the science of cryptanalysis.  He helped to translate Japanese coded communications making possible the virtually complete destruction of Japanese shipping.  After the war McNelly became an analyst in the civil intelligence section of General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters, thus acquainting himself with the intricacies of subtleties   of Japanese politics.   At Columbia University he earned a Ph.D. in political science and Asian studies.  His professors, Hugh Borton and Sir George Sansom, had been the principal American and British authors of Allied policies for the occupation of Japan.  Under their authoritative direction, McNelly wrote his doctoral dissertation, which until 1991 was the only book-length description and analysis in English of the formulation of Japan's postwar democratic constitution. He was a consultant to the Japanese government's Commission on the Constitution.   For seven years in the 1950s McNelly taught college courses in politics and history at American military bases in Germany, France, England, Japan, Okinawa, and Korea, making side trips to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.  He describes the effects of World War II on the people of those countries and the reaction in Japan to the emperor's promulgation of a new democratic constitution.  McNelly provides his interpretation of the collapse of the Fourth Republic while he was stationed in France.  He gives a candid account of his life as a peripatetic bachelor before his marriage to the love of his life at the age of forty.  McNelly has taught at Washington University (St.  Louis) and Columbia University.  During his thirty-year career as a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, he has received numerous grants for research in Japan, and le

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by McNelly, Theodore. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by McNelly, Theodore