Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials - Softcover

Orvis, Stephen; Drogus, Carol Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506385699 ISBN 13: 9781506385693

Publisher: Cq Pr, 2018

Synopsis

For Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials, the driving force is the pluralist, objective stance on introducing students to core concepts in Comparative Politics. Authors Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus introduce key comparative questions while providing equal strengths and weaknesses of commonly debated theories, structures, and beliefs that push students beyond memorization of country profiles and ever-changing statistics and generate in-class debate over key concepts used in the science of comparative politics. While detailed case studies can go in-depth on specific countries and political systems, Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials, distills its country material into paragraph-long examples woven seamlessly into the narrative of the text, increasing diverse global awareness, current-event literacy, and critical-thinking skills.

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Review

"I think the discussion of government systems is one of the most challenging topics in this class for students. The chapter does a great job presenting theory, explaining concepts, giving examples and comparing systems. I would assign it to my students as required reading without hesitation."

--Anca Turcu "University of Central Florida "

"It is an exceptionally good idea that the themes of the book are also presented in the case study analysis, which will help students see these concepts in action. My current text focuses on one aspect of our thematic analysis for each case, but I would like a text that I can use to highlight key themes throughout the case, rather than a singular focus."

--Season Hoard

"I strongly believe there is a need for such a textbook. The quality of Volume I (as suggested by Chapter 6), its tight and organized presentation, and its effective embedding of the "need-to-know" questions in the existing and well-referenced scholarly literature suggests it would be a major contribute to the textbook market in comparative politics. The separating out of the cases from the thematic coverage through the two-volume format would give many instructors more of a choice. I like that!"

--Thomas D. Lancaster

About the Author

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 more than twenty-five 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, as well as several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya and is currently doing research on political institutions in Africa.

Carol Ann Drogus is a retired Professor of Government at Hamilton College. She is a specialist on Brazil, religion, and women's political participation. She taught introduction to comparative politics for more than fifteen 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cq Pr
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506385699
• ISBN 13: 9781506385693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 444