Principles of Comparative Politics - Softcover

Clark, William Roberts; Golder, Matt; Golder, Sona N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608716791 ISBN 13: 9781608716791

Publisher: CQ Press, 2012

Synopsis

 

The groundbreaking first edition of Principles of Comparative Politics offered the most comprehensive and up-to-date view of the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. Now, this thoroughly revised second edition offers students an even better guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. The new edition retains its focus on the enduring questions with which scholars grapple, the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to get at the complex problems in the field. Improving organization and integrating the latest scholarship, important changes include:

 

• A new "Varieties of Dictatorship" chapter;

 

• Clearer headers signaling coverage of authoritarian regimes, and new sections highlighting resources on the study of authoritarianism;

 

• An expanded program of world maps showing key attributes of national political systems;

 

• Reorganization of the "What is Science?" chapter with a focus on the scientific method and reduced emphasis on Mill’s Methods;

 

• A streamlined "Problems with Group Decision Making" chapter that focuses on government formation and collapse as a principle-agent problem;

 

• Timely analysis of developments in the Middle East as part of the "Democratic Transitions" chapter including an examination of the use of coordinating devices and differences within the region focusing on outcomes and coalitions;

 

• Updates for current events, including coverage of late Bush and Obama era policies, war in Somalia, the intervention in Libya, and more.

 

The book’s outstanding pedagogy includes chapter opener overviews, bolded key terms and a marginal glossary, more than 250 tables and figures, numerous photos and maps, end of chapter problem sets, and new works cited and country-specific bibliographies.

About this title

About the Authors

William Roberts Clark is head of the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of Capitalism, Not Globalism, and his articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, 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 more than three decades.

Matt Golder was previously assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. He is the author of articles which have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, and Political Analysis among other journals. He has taught classes on comparative politics, advanced industrialized democracies, quantitative methods, and European politics at the University of Iowa, Florida State University, and the University of Essex.

Sona Nadenichek Golder was previously assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. She is the author of The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation, and has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and European Union Politics. She teaches courses on European politics, democracies and dictatorships, comparative institutions, game theory, and comparative politics at Florida State University and was a Mentor-in-Residence for the 2007 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Program at UCLA .

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608716791
• ISBN 13: 9781608716791
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 928