Introducing Comparative Politics

The Essentials

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Chapter-opening learning objectives have been added to the second edition to help guide students’ reading of the chapters and help them focus on the important points. 
• A thorough reorganizations of Chapters 8 and 9, to reflect the recent debates in the field on authoritarianism and the demise of democracy. Chapter 9 includes extended examples from Turkey and Hungary to illustrate authoritarianization, and we focus on the civil war in Syria in chapter 7 that has led to the global refugee crisis and the debates it has raised in many countries.
• Chapter 4 includes a new section social class as an identity category.
• The section on political parties in Chapter 6 has been reorganized to emphasize different ways in which parties mobilize support, including an extended section on the global rise of populism.
  

KEY FEATURES

• Chapter-opening key questions help students focus on the key issues as they read the chapter and encourage debate in class. The chapters sometimes provide conclusive answers to the key questions, but more often they show students different ways the questions can be answered or approached.
• Multiple “In Context” features in every chapter illustrate basic data about the chapter topics so students can set that idea into a comparative (and sometimes provocative) context.
• Critical Inquiry features highlight methodological issues in comparative politics, providing a gateway for empirical study and analysis.
• End-of-chapter lists of key concepts with page references are included to help students to easily study and review the concepts, and a list of works cited and a list of important print and electronic references offer students resources for further research.