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Introduction to comparative politics : political challenges and changing agendas / [edited by] Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, 2016Copyright date: 2016Edition: Seventh editionDescription: xxviii, 724 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781285865331
  • 1285865332
  • 9781285865355
  • 1285865359
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JF51 I8
Contents:
Part I. Introduction ; Introducing comparative politics -- Part II. Consolidated democracies ; Britain ; France ; Germany ; European Union ; Japan ; India ; The United States -- Part III. Mixed systems ; Brazil ; Mexico ; South Africa ; Nigeria ; The Russian Federation -- Part IV. Authoritarian regimes ; Iran ; China.
Summary: Updated to reflect today's political climate, the seventh edition of INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS offers a country-by-country approach that allows students to fully examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems. Each chapter offers an analysis of political challenges and changing agendas within countries and provides detailed descriptions and analyses of the politics of individual countries. The text offers a condensed narrative and student-friendly pedagogy, such as marginal key terms and questions that will help them make meaningful connections and comparisons about the countries presented. This edition consists of 13 country case studies, as well as a case study on the European Union, providing an interesting sample of political regimes, levels of economic development, and geographic regions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-696) and index.

Part I. Introduction ; Introducing comparative politics -- Part II. Consolidated democracies ; Britain ; France ; Germany ; European Union ; Japan ; India ; The United States -- Part III. Mixed systems ; Brazil ; Mexico ; South Africa ; Nigeria ; The Russian Federation -- Part IV. Authoritarian regimes ; Iran ; China.

Updated to reflect today's political climate, the seventh edition of INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS offers a country-by-country approach that allows students to fully examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems. Each chapter offers an analysis of political challenges and changing agendas within countries and provides detailed descriptions and analyses of the politics of individual countries. The text offers a condensed narrative and student-friendly pedagogy, such as marginal key terms and questions that will help them make meaningful connections and comparisons about the countries presented. This edition consists of 13 country case studies, as well as a case study on the European Union, providing an interesting sample of political regimes, levels of economic development, and geographic regions.

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