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Foundations of Comparative Politics
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Foundations of Comparative Politics
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Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition!
Foundations of Comparative Politics, Second Edition presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. This condensed, more accessible format introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics, using brief insights from tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to help them understand clearly why some explanations for political phenomena are stronger than others.
William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona Nadenichek Golder concentrate on describing the core features of regimes and institutions and on analyzing how these fundamental attributes drive variation in the economic and political outcomes we care about most. This approach—constructing and testing theories on political phenomena over basic memorization of country-specific facts—more closely replicates what comparative scholars do to explain, rather than describe. Current examples that show the application of theory help students develop invaluable real-world skills in critical thinking and empirical analysis that they will carry with them long after the course is over.
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Foundations of Comparative Politics, Second Edition presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. This condensed, more accessible format introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics, using brief insights from tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to help them understand clearly why some explanations for political phenomena are stronger than others.
William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona Nadenichek Golder concentrate on describing the core features of regimes and institutions and on analyzing how these fundamental attributes drive variation in the economic and political outcomes we care about most. This approach—constructing and testing theories on political phenomena over basic memorization of country-specific facts—more closely replicates what comparative scholars do to explain, rather than describe. Current examples that show the application of theory help students develop invaluable real-world skills in critical thinking and empirical analysis that they will carry with them long after the course is over.
Included with this title:
LMS Cartridge: Import this title's instructor resources into your school's learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don?t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Select the Resources tab on this page to learn more.
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Comparative PoliticsTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Part I What is Comparative Politics?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Science?
- 3 What Is Politics?
- Part II The Modern State: Democracy or Dictatorship?
- 4 The Origins of the Modern State
- 5 The Economic Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
- 6 The Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
- 7 Democratic Transitions
- Part III Varieties of Democracy and Dictatorship
- 8 Varieties of Dictatorship
- 9 Problems With Group Decision Making
- 10 Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Democracies
- 11 Elections and Electoral Systems
- 12 Social Cleavages, Party Systems, and Party Competition
- 13 Institutional Veto Players
- Part IV Varieties of Democracy and Political Outcomes
- 14 Consequences of Democratic Institutions
- References
- Index