Political Atlas of the Modern World: An Experiment in Multidimensional Statistical Analysis of the Political Systems of Modern States

The Political Atlas of the Modern World is a unique reference source which addresses these questions by providing a comparative study of the political systems of all 192 countries of the world.

• Uses quantitative data and multidimensional statistical analysis
• Ranks countries according to five indices of political development: stateness, external and internal threats, potential of international influence, quality of life, institutional basis of democracy
• Illustrated throughout with tables and diagrams.

Andrei Melville is Professor of Political Science at State University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Yuri Polunin is Chief Analyst of the “Expert” magazine and Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University, Moscow

Mikhail Ilyin is Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University, Moscow

Mikhail Mironyuk is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at MGIMO-University and Associate Professor of Polititcal Science at State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Ivan Timofeev is Associate Professor of Political Theory at MGIMO-University, Moscow

Elena Meleshkina is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Yan Vaslavskiy is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at MGIMO-University, Moscow