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.
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Table of Content
Part I: What is Comparative Politics?
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What is Science?
Chapter 3: What is Politics?
Part II: The Modern State: Democracy or Dictatorship?
Chapter 4: The Origins of the Modern State
Chapter 5: The Economic Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
Chapter 6: The Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
Chapter 7: Democratic Transitions
Part III: Varieties of Democracy and Dictatorship
Chapter 8: Varieties of Dictatorship
Chapter 9: Problems with Group Decision Making
Chapter 10: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Democracies
Chapter 11: Elections and Electoral Systems
Chapter 12: Social Cleavages and Party Systems
Chapter 13: Institutional Veto Players
Part IV: Varieties of Democracy and Political Outcomes
Chapter 14: Consequences of Democratic Institutions
About the author
Sona Nadenichek Golder was previously assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. She is the author of The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation, and has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and European Union Politics. She teaches courses on European politics, democracies and dictatorships, comparative institutions, game theory, and comparative politics at Florida State University and was a Mentor-in-Residence for the 2007 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Program at UCLA .
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