This text was created in response to demands for a brief version of the leading comparative politics text, Almond and Powell's Comparative Politics Today. The material focuses on the world-wide process of democratisation.
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.
This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
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Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparative politics.
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The book's organization allows you to teach the course the way you want to teach it.
Using 12 pivotal cases, this book brings comparative politics to life by highlighting the key differences in political systems around the world.
Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government.