- Date: 07/21/2011
- Format: Shrinkwrapped Pkg.
- Price: $125.00
- ISBN: 978-1-4522-0221-1
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Introducing Comparative Politics, 2nd Edition + Contending Perspectives in Comparative Politics Package
Carol Ann Drogus, Hamilton College
Stephen Orvis, Hamilton College
Lawrence Mayer, Texas Tech University
Frank Thames, Texas Tech University
Dennis Patterson, Texas Tech University
Introducing Comparative Politics, 2nd Edition Uncomfortable with a strictly thematic approach, or tired of a purely country-by-country organization for your comparative politics course? Teach the way you want to teach with this innovative hybrid book—fully accessible to students, easy to teach, and satisfying to professors who want to give students a real sense of the questions that drive research in the field. Organized thematically around important concepts in comparative politics—Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why?—the book integrates a set of extended case studies in eleven “core” countries. Serving as consistent geographic touchstones, the cases are set in chapters where they make the most sense substantively—not separated from theory or in a separate volume—and vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context. Features include: - Core country case studies: Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, India, Iran, Nigeria, Russia, the UK, the U.S., and, new to this edition, Mexico.
- NEW! Methods in Context boxes that model how comparativists do their research and analysis.
- In Context fact boxes that put eye-opening data into thematic context.
- Where and Why? boxes that explore why certain political outcomes occur in some countries but not in others.
- Country and Concept tables that display key indicators for core countries.
Updates and revisions include: - recent elections around the world and the effects of the global financial crisis and its aftermath,
- authoritarian versus totalitarian regimes,
- ethnic violence,
- racial politics and identity,
- economic globalization,
- executive-legislative institutions, and
- the role of civil society in government.
Contending Perspectives in Comparative Politics In addition to a well-chosen set of classic readings, Contending Perspectives also offers students access to cutting-edge research. By framing chapters around a central question in the field, the editors are able to show students how scholars approach inquiry with different perspectives, producing controversy and consensus in interesting and instructive ways. With these selections, students see work with data, theory, and analysis at its best and set in proper context—not pieces chosen just for their currency or for pages of colorful detail. Chapter introductions and selection headnotes offer important background and critical thinking questions. For more on Contending Perspectives, including the table of contents, click here.
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New to this Edition Introducing Comparative Politics, 2nd Edition Updates and revisions include: - recent elections around the world and the eff ects of the global fi nancial crisis and its aftermath,
- authoritarian versus totalitarian regimes,
- ethnic violence,
- racial politics and identity,
- economic globalization,
- executive-legislative institutions, and
- the role of civil society in government.
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Bio(s)
Carol Ann Drogus, Hamilton College Carol Ann Drogus is currently Associate Dean of Students for Off-Campus Study at Hamilton College, where she was formerly a professor of government. She is a specialist on Brazil, religion, and women’s political participation. She taught introduction to comparative politics for 15 years, as well as courses on Latin American politics, gender and politics, and women in Latin America. She has written two books and numerous articles on the political participation of women in religious movements in Brazil. Stephen Orvis, Hamilton College Stephen Orvis is professor of government at Hamilton College. He is a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa, (Kenya in particular), identity politics, democratic transitions, and the political economy of development. He has been teaching introduction to comparative politics for 20 years, as well as courses on African politics, nationalism and the politics of identity, political economy of development, and weak states. He has written a book and articles on agricultural development in Kenya, several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya, and is currently doing research on political institutions in Africa. Lawrence Mayer, Texas Tech University Lawrence Mayer is professor of political science at Texas Tech University. His current research interests include party system change, especially in the weakening of mainstream parties of the moderate left and right, and the emergence of populist parties of identity. His published books include: Comparative Politics: Nations and Theories in a Changing World (With Burnett, Ogden, and Tuman), American Public Policy (with Cochran, Carr, and Cayer), Redefining Comparative Politics, Politics in Industrial Societies (with Burnett), and Comparative Political Inquiry: A Methodological Survey. His articles have appeared in Political Science and Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Western Political Quarterly, Teaching Political Science, and West European Politics.Frank Thames, Texas Tech University Frank Thames is assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech University. His current research focuses on legislative behavior in post-communist legislatures and the economic effects of electoral systems. His journal articles have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Europe-Asia Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and Comparative Political Studies.Dennis Patterson, Texas Tech University Dennis Patterson areas of specialization include comparative politics (advanced societies), politics of Japan/Asia, comparative political economy, political institutions/election systems, rational choice models of politics, and security in East Asia. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as elections and electoral influences on policymaking in Japan in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Women and Politics, and Pacific Focus. He recently published a co-authored book (with Dick Beason) The Japan That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country and is currently working on a project that examines the politics of election system change in comparative perspective.
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