Introducing Comparative Politics

The Essentials

Stephen Orvis, Carol Ann Drogus

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781544379043
• eBook ISBN: 9781544379012
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials is focused on core concepts and the big picture questions in comparative politics—Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why? Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of commonly debated theories, structures, and beliefs and push students to apply their understanding.

While detailed case studies can go in-depth on specific countries and political systems, this book distills its country material into the narrative, increasing global awareness, current-event literacy, and critical-thinking skills. Adapted from the authors' Introducing Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition, The Essentials version offers the same framework for understanding comparative politics in a briefer format, allowing you to teach the course the way you want to teach it. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• PART I A Framework for Understanding Comparative Politics
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Modern State
• 3 States, Citizens, and Regimes
• 4 States and Identity
• PART II Political Systems and How They Work
• 5 Governing Institutions in Democracies
• 6 Institutions of Participation and Representation in Democracies
• 7 Contentious Politics Social Movements, Political Violence, and Revolution
• 8 Authoritarian Institutions
• 9 Regime Change
• PART III Political Economy and Policy
• 10 Political Economy of Wealth
• 11 Political Economy of Development
• 12 Public Policies When Markets Fail Welfare, Health, and the Environment
• Glossary
• Index