Introduction to Comparative Politics,
9th Edition

1. Introducing Political Science.
2. Building Theory and Presenting Evidence in Comparative Politics.
3. Democracy and its Alternatives.
4. Identities: Class, Ethnicity, and Collective Politics.
5. Governing the Economy.
6. Britain.
7. Germany.
8. India.
9. Brazil.
10. Mexico.
11. Nigeria.
12. The Russian Federation.
13. Iran.
14. China.
15. Debating The Future of Comparative Politics.

• Mark Kesselman

  Mark Kesselman is senior editor of the International Political Science Review and professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political economy of French and European politics. His publications include The Ambiguous Consensus (1967), The French Workers Movement (1984), The Politics of Globalization: A Reader (2012), and The Politics of Power (2013). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, World Politics, and Comparative Politics.

• Joel Krieger

  Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Decline (Oxford University Press, 1986), British Politics in the Global Age (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

• William A. Joseph

  William A. Joseph is professor of political science and chair of the department at Wellesley College. He is also an associate in research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major areas of academic interest are contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, the political economy of development, and the Vietnam War. He is the editor of and a contributor to Politics in China: An Introduction, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2014).

• New theory chapters on democracy, political economy and political identities present students with the conceptual background to analyze the political, economic and social structures discussed in the case studies.

• An expanded, separate chapter on comparative methods and a new concluding chapter called “Debating The Future of Comparative Politics” offer students ways to continue their learning beyond the text. These chapters include tips and starting points that help merge research design with the course content, give students more ways to explore current events on their own, and enhance the skills needed to undertake individual projects.

• Learning objectives are listed at the start of each chapter, integrated into respective chapter sections, and summarized in the chapter conclusion.

• Each case study chapter includes a new data analysis feature box, which challenges students to use quantitative data to describe and analyze variation in political outcomes. This feature supports students’ data literacy, inviting them to use data to expand their learning.

• The U.S. Connection feature compares an important aspect of political institutions with the American counterpart.

• Sidebar boxes in each country chapter highlight three interesting and provocative aspects of politics. A profile feature spotlights biographies of important political leaders, while the Global Connection feature provides links between domestic and international politics.

• Each country chapter includes six consistent sections to facilitate cross-national comparison and student understanding: a chapter-opening vignette illustrating an important feature of the country's political patterns, a description of the country's past and current political economy, a discussion of the major political institutions, an analysis of political participation, a discussion of collective action and political identities, and a review of major current issues that confront the country.

• Data analysis boxes in each country chapter challenge students to use quantitative data to describe and analyze variation in political outcomes. This feature supports students’ data literacy learning and invites them to use data to expand their learning.

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