Essential Readings in Comparative Politics - Softcover

Patrick O'Neil & Ronald Rogowski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039392517X ISBN 13: 9780393925173

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Essential Readings in Comparative Politics is a reader designed to complement Essentials of Comparative Politics, but is sufficiently well-rounded to be used independently or in conjunction with almost any approach to the subject. Following the organization of Essentials of Comparative Politics the chapters are organized thematically around major topics. Each chapter generally begins with a classic or fundamental reading, and subsequent readings in the chapter take up different views and aspects of the topic. Like the corresponding textbook, Essential Readings in Comparative Politics does not seek to teach students specific facts about individual countries. Instead, it encourages a more truly comparative approach by helping students to understand theoretical issues that have implications for any number of actual political systems; past, present, and future.

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About the Author

Patrick H. O’Neil is Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. Professor O’Neil’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of authoritarianism and democratization. His past research focused on Eastern Europe, and his current research deals with the Middle East, particularly Iran. His publications include Revolution from Within: The Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party “Reform Circles” and the Collapse of Communism and Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions (editor).

Ronald Rogowski is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and served from 2007 to 2012 as editor-in-chief of the American Political Science Review. He is the author of Rational Legitimacy and Commerce and Coalitions and coauthor of Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power. He was elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007–08 was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His current research focuses on long-term changes in inequality and effects of regional specialization in the European Union.

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039392517X
• ISBN 13: 9780393925173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512