Essential Readings in Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is the most affordable reader that combines classic theoretical works, contemporary scholarship, and serious journalistic pieces for undergraduate comparative politics courses. Designed to complement the text, the reader’s chapters are organized thematically around major topics. The third edition includes 40% new readings.
I got this book from Booksale, SM City San Lazaro. It's incredibly affordable considering that it only cost 25 Pesos and a handful of articles from well-known political scientists and comparativists at that. I am the luckiest ♥
More than twenty years old now, so I don't know how much political scientists still subscribe to these ideas. But a good foundational collection for the layperson that covers a broad range of topics and theses.
I really liked being able to learn about Duverger's law by reading a section written by Maurice Duverger or Adam Smith's ideas about the public benefits of self-interest by reading a section from Wealth of Nations. This was quite a wide-ranging introduction to some of the high points of Comparative Politics. Very good.