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Comparative Government and Politics

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An Introduction

Rod Hague
Martin Harrop
John McCormick

John McCormick 2016

Martin Harrop 2013

Rod Hague and Martin Harrop 1982, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010

Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, and Shaun Breslin 1992, 1998

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Illustrations and features

Spotlights

Focus

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Preface

Major changes to this edition

: Broadened to a review of the political, economic and social factors that help us compare, with an expanded section on classifying political systems.

: Includes new discussion of quasi-states and de facto states, and a new section on globalization and challenges to the state.

: Expanded coverage of e-democracy, liberal democracy, and civil liberties, and a new section on the contemporary problems facing democracies.

: Includes a new section on hybrid regimes, reorganized coverage of forms of authoritarian states, and an expanded closing section on corruption.

: Opens with a new section on the changing face of comparative politics.

on comparative methods, with new material on empirical and normative approaches, and on political prediction.

: More focus on the relationship between constitutions and courts, with revised discussion on the character and durability of constitutions.

: Expanded discussion about the functions of legislatures, the nature of representation, and legislatures in authoritarian systems.

: Expanded coverage of semi-presidential and authoritarian systems, and new material on heads of state and government.

: Re-ordered content, with reduced discussion of new public management to make room for expanded coverage of e-government.

: Expanded coverage of unitary systems comes earlier in the chapter, and a new section compares unitary and federal systems.

: Includes new discussion of The Clash of Civilizations, and of the effect of the internet on political culture.

: Significantly re-ordered, with new discussion of the reasons why people participate in politics.

: Also significantly re-ordered, with expanded discussion of the role and effects of social media.

: Extended section on party systems moved to the beginning of the chapter, and new material injected on parties in authoritarian regimes.

: Includes more detail on election types, notably majority systems and proportional representation.

: Includes a new section on voter choice, with expanded coverage of voter turnout and of voters in authoritarian states.

: Includes new coverage of think-tanks, a reorganized discussion of channels of influence, and a review of social movements.

: formerly a chapter titled The Policy Process, this includes new coverage of the effects of the resource curse in poorer states.

This is a book designed to introduce students to the study of comparative politics.The goal of the new edition is the same as that of its predecessors: to provide a wide-ranging and accessible guide for courses and modules in this fascinating and essential sub-ld of political science.

As before, the book takes a thematic approach centred on liberal democracies and authoritarian states, and divides the chapters into three groups.

The first group () provides the foundations, with a review of key concepts followed by chapters on the state, democracies, authoritarian systems, theoretical approaches, and comparative methods.