Introduction to Comparative Politics : Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

Introduction to Comparative Politics offers accessible material for an introductory comparative politics course. Edited by a highly respected team of scholars, each of the text's twelve country studies is written by an expert in the field.

Four innovative themes, each with a specific focus, form the framework of the text: The World of States, Governing the Economy, The Democratic Idea, and The Politics of Collective Identities.

• A classification system focuses on levels of democracy, including established, transitional, and non-democracies.
• A chapter on the United States follows the same lines of comparison as those on other countries.
• Every chapter includes four to six sidebars, which focus on different subjects, including leaders, citizen action, institutional intricacies, current challenges, and global connections.