Foundations of Comparative Politics - International Student Edition
William Roberts Clark author Matt Golder author Sona N Golder author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Publishing:14th Feb '25
£109.00
This title is due to be published on 14th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition!
Foundations of Comparative Politics, Second Edition presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. This condensed, more accessible format introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics, using brief insights from tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to help them understand clearly why some explanations for political phenomena are stronger than others.
William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona Nadenichek Golder concentrate on describing the core features of regimes and institutions and on analyzing how these fundamental attributes drive variation in the economic and political outcomes we care about most. This approach—constructing and testing theories on political phenomena over basic memorization of country-specific facts—more closely replicates what comparative scholars do to explain, rather than describe. Current examples that show the application of theory help students develop invaluable real-world skills in critical thinking and empirical analysis that they will carry with them long after the course is over.
ISBN: 9781071895313
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528 pages
2nd Revised edition