Essential Readings in Comparative Politics

An affordable companion reader to Essentials of Comparative Politics that features the classic ideas and contemporary debates that inform comparative politics today.

Essential Readings in Comparative Politics combines classic theoretical works, contemporary scholarship, and serious journalistic pieces for undergraduate comparative politics courses. Designed to complement the core textbook, Essentials of Comparative Politics, the reader’s chapters are organized thematically around major topics. The Fourth Edition includes 40% new readings.