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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. Democracy and Dictatorship: Conceptualization and Measurement
6. The Economic Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
7. Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
8. Democratic Transitions
9. Democracy or Dictatorship: Does it make a Difference?

Part III. Varieties of Democracy and Dictatorship
10. NEW! Varieties of Dictatorship
11. Problems with Group Decision Making
12. Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Democracies: Making and Breaking Governments
13. Elections and Electoral Systems
14. Social Cleavages and Party Systems
15. Institutional Veto Players

Part IV. Varieties of Democracy and Political Outcomes
16. Consequences of Democratic Institutions

William Roberts Clark is professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Capitalism, Not Globalism, and his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, International Organization, and European Union Politics, among other journals. He has been teaching at a wide variety of public and private schools (William Paterson College, Rutgers University, Georgia Tech, Princeton, New York University, and the University of Michigan) for almost two decades.

Matt Golder is associate professor of political science at the Pennsylvania State University. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, and Electoral Studies, among other journals. He has taught classes on comparative politics, quantitative methods, game theory, and European politics at the University of Iowa, Florida State University, the University of Essex, and the Pennsylvania State University.

Sona Nadenichek Golder is associate professor of political science at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation and articles published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, and the British Journal of Political Science. She has taught courses on game theory, political institutions, comparative politics, and quantitative analysis at Florida State University, the University of Essex, and the Pennsylvania State University.

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Principles of Comparative Politics, 2e + Electronic Edition
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Clark, Golder, Golder, Mayer, Thames, Patterson
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