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description: Click on the link below to preview chapters one. Order your exam copy today by clicking on the Request an Exam Copy link above.An introduction to comparative politics should be a window onto the real world of comparative inquiry research and scholarship. At last a groundbreaking text gives students meaningful insight into how cross-national comparison is actually conducted and why it the enduring questions that scholars grapple with the issues about which consensus has started to emerge and the tools comparativists use to get at the complex and interesting problems at the heart of the field.Beginning with a clear and straightforward discussion of the comparative and scientific methods each chapter outlines the debates about the political phenomena that drive current research such as state failure the economic and cultural determinants of democracy or the effects of regime type and electoral system.The authors show students how comparativists construct and test theories applying the principles of the scientific method and simple game theory to a wide variety of examples and cases. Students wont get lost in detail theyll never use or remember and instead learn exactly why the variations across institutional structures and functions are important.The books outstanding pedagogy 
language: English
title: Principles of Comparative Politics
publisher: CQ Press