Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials - Softcover

Orvis, Stephen Walter; Drogus, Carol Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544379048 ISBN 13: 9781544379043

Publisher: CQ Press, 2020

Synopsis

Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials is focused on core concepts and the big picture questions in comparative politics―Who rules? What explains political behavior? Where and why? Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of commonly debated theories, structures, and beliefs and push students to apply their understanding.

While detailed case studies can go in-depth on specific countries and political systems, this book distills its country material into the narrative, increasing global awareness, current-event literacy, and critical-thinking skills. Adapted from the authors’ Introducing Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition, The Essentials version offers the same framework for understanding comparative politics in a briefer format, allowing you to teach the course the way you want to teach it. 

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About the Authors

Stephen Orvis is Professor of Government at Hamilton College. He is a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya in particular), identity politics, democratic transitions, and the political economy of development. He has been teaching introduction to comparative politics for more than twenty-five years, as well as courses on African politics, nationalism and the politics of identity, political economy of development, and weak states. He has written a book and articles on agricultural development in Kenya, as well as several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya, and is currently doing research on political institutions in Africa.

Carol Ann Drogus is a retired Professor of Government at Hamilton College. She is a specialist on Brazil, religion, and women’s political participation. She taught introduction to comparative politics for more than twenty years, as well as courses on Latin American politics, gender and politics, and women in Latin America. She has written two books and numerous articles on the political participation of women in religious movements in Brazil.

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544379048
• ISBN 13: 9781544379043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424