Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

<p><strong>Uncomfortable with a strictly thematic approach, or tired of a purely country-by-country organization for your comparative politics course? </strong></p><p>Teach the way you want to teach with this innovative hybrid book€•fully 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 politics€•Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why?€•the 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 substantively€•not separated from theory or in a separate volume€•and vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context. </p><p>Features include:</p><ul><li>Core country case studies: Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, India, Iran, Nigeria, Russia, the UK, the U.S., and, new to this edition, Mexico.</li><li><font color="#ff0000">NEW!</font> Methods in Context boxes that model how comparativists do their research and analysis.</li><li>In Context fact boxes that put eye-opening data into thematic context.</li><li>Where and Why? boxes that explore why certain political outcomes occur in some countries but not in others.</li><li>Country and Concept tables that display key indicators for core countries. </li></ul><p>Updates and revisions include: </p><ul><li>recent elections around the world and the effects of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, </li><li>authoritarian versus totalitarian regimes, </li><li>ethnic violence, </li><li>racial politics and identity, </li><li>economic globalization, </li><li>executive-legislative institutions, and </li><li>the role of civil society in government.</li></ul>