Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

by Stephen Orvis, Carol Ann Drogus (Editor)

Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics―Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why?― Introducing Comparative Politics integrates a set of extended case studies of 11 core countries into the narrative. Serving as touchstones, the cases are set in chapters where they make the most sense topically―not separated from theory or in a separate volume―and vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context. The book’s hybrid organization allows you to teach the way you want to teach and gives students a more accurate sense of comparative study.

Genres: Textbooks, Politics, Nonfiction

768 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 2014

Reviews

[Duru]

lezgoooo baybeee (for the record, the content of this textbook interested me more than my last polisci textbook)

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook was used by my teacher for AP Comparative Government and Politics. This book was written for first-year college Comparative Politics, so it was stuffed with so much unnecessary information for the AP exam. The tests I had to take for each chapter were also hard. If I hadn't improved so much on the tests in the second semester, I probably wouldn't have ended with an A on the AP course.

[Jonathan Choi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best textbook choice for learning just the material for the AP course, but it obviously comes from the teachers' heart of wanting students to not just learn the material, but to become interested in political science and all of its intricacies, which I appreciate.

[Ty Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Explains concepts well. Unnecessarily long. Boring but good information and well structured. Useful examples but examples are often too long.

[Miranda · Rating 4 out of 5]

PLS 103: Issues in Comparative Politics