Essential Readings in Comparative Politics

Classic works and contemporary ideas

This accessible collection combines classic theoretical works, contemporary scholarship, and serious journalistic pieces. It’s perfectly suited for the undergraduate comparative politics course. Designed to complement Essentials of Comparative Politics, the reader’s chapters are organized thematically around major topics. The Fifth Edition includes 40% NEW readings.

• Essentials of Comparative Politics (Sixth Edition)
• Cases in Comparative Politics (Sixth Edition)
• Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context
• Essentials of Comparative Politics (Fifth Edition)
• Cases in Comparative Politics (Fifth Edition)
• Writing in Political Science: A Brief Guide (Short Guides to Writing in the Disciplines)
• Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
• Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
• From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
• The Political Economy Reader: Markets as Institutions