Essentials of Comparative Politics 2e - Softcover

O′neil, Patrick

 
9780393928761: Essentials of Comparative Politics 2e

Synopsis

For this Second Edition, each book has been revised to best complement the others and updated to reflect recent developments.

This accessible introduction presents the core concepts that political scientists use to study and compare political systems, illustrating these concepts with concrete examples from specific political systems.

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About the Author

Patrick H. O'Neil is Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. Professor O'Neil's teaching and research interests are in the areas of authoritarianism and democratization. His past research focused on Eastern Europe, and his current research deals with the Middle East, particularly Iran. His publications include Revolution from Within: The Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party "Reform Circles" and the Collapse of Communism and Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions (editor).

Synopsis

O'Neil (U. of Puget Sound) takes a thematic approach to introducing the field of comparative politics, first offering chapters that conceptually explore the key institutions of politics--states, markets, societies, and democracy or authoritarianism--and later applying these conceptualizations within separate chapters on advanced democracies, commun

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