Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

Krieger, Professor Joel; Joseph, William; Kesselman, Mark

ISBN 10: 1111834199 ISBN 13: 9781111834197

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Updated to reflect today's political climate, the Sixth Edition of INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS, International Edition offers a country-by-country approach that allows students to fully examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems. Each chapter offers an analysis of political challenges and changing agendas within countries and provides detailed descriptions and analyses of the politics of individual countries. The Sixth Edition offers a condensed narrative and student-friendly pedagogy like marginal key terms and focus questions that will helps students make meaningful connections and comparisons about the countries presented. INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS, International Edition, consists of 13 country case studies, selected for their significance in terms of the comparative themes and because they provide an interesting sample of types of political regimes, levels of economic development, and geographic regions.

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Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Decline (Oxford University Press, 1986), British Politics in the Global Age (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013). William A. Joseph is professor of political science and chair of the department at Wellesley College. He is also an associate in research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major areas of academic interest are contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, the political economy of development, and the Vietnam War. He is the editor of and a contributor to Politics in China: An Introduction, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2014). Mark Kesselman is senior editor of the International Political Science Review and professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political economy of French and European politics. His publications include The Ambiguous Consensus (1967), The French Workers Movement (1984), The Politics of Globalization: A Reader (2012), and The Politics of Power (2013). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, World Politics, and Comparative Politics.

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• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1111834199
• ISBN 13: 9781111834197
• Einband: Sonstiges Zubehör
• Auflage: 6
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar