Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context
Uncomfortable with a strictly thematic approach, or tired of a purely country-by-country organization for your comparative politics course?
Teach the way you want to teach with this innovative hybrid bookۥfully accessible to students, easy to teach, and satisfying to professors who want to give students a real sense of the questions that drive research in the field. Organized thematically around important concepts in comparative politicsۥWho rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why?ۥthe book integrates a set of extended case studies in eleven "core" countries. Serving as consistent geographic touchstones, the cases are set in chapters where they make the most sense substantivelyۥnot separated from theory or in a separate volumeۥand vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context.
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