Combining thematic organization and a variety of country-specific case studies, this text is an engaging and accessible introduction to comparative politics. Methodological tools are introduced early in the text and integrated throughout in order to help students develop a systematic way ofthinking about the subject.
The text is available with a corresponding casebook of 13 country studies and a corresponding reader; the three components can be used individually or in any combination.
Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics—who rules? what explains political behavior? where and why?—Introducing Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition by Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus, integrates a ...
"Comparative Politics" provides a comprehensive introduction to political systems around the world. It covers methods and theories; the nation-state; institutions; actors and processes; policies; and recent changes.
All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.
The book's organization allows you to teach the course the way you want to teach it.
This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science
Goldberg, S. (1993) Why Men Rule. Chicago: Open Court. Goldstone, J.A. (1991) Revolution ... Granovetter, M.S. (1985) 'Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness', American Journal of Sociology, 91 (3): 481–510.
The book concludes with a stimulating discussion of whether the great systems debates of the past (socialism vs. capitalism, democracy vs. authoritarianism) are now over and points to some of the next important study and research frontiers.
A : The critiques of and the hostility toward Talcott Parsons played an important role in this decline . ... Take a person who becomes a finance inspector or gets accepted to the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in France .