Synopses & Reviews
This brief edition of the bestselling, full-length Introduction to Comparative Poliics uses the same key themes to frame the presentation of each country's politics, placing a strong emphasis on political economy. This edition's easy to read 8x10" format and two-color design features new pedagogy, such as a marginal glossary, while maintaining the essential material of the full text.
About the Author
Mark Kesselman is professor of political science at Columbia University, where his research and teaching focuses on the political economy of advanced capitalism, with particular attention to French politics, the Left, and organized labor in Western Europe. Professor Kesselman received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has authored many scholarly articles in the AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, COMPARATIVE POLITICS, and elsewhere. He also is author, coauthor, or editor of THE FRENCH WORKERS' MOVEMENT: ECONOMIC CRISIS AND POLITICAL CHANGE (1984), and EUROPEAN POLITICS IN TRANSITION (1992).Joel Krieger is Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. His publications include BRITISH POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL AGE: CAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? (Polity, 1999), and REAGAN, THATCHER, AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE (Oxford University Press, 1986). He also was editor-in-chief of THE OXFORD COMPANION TO POLITICS OF THE WORLD (Oxford University Press, 1993).Bill Joseph is professor of political science at Wellesley College and an associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. His major area of research is contemporary Chinese politics and ideology.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction 1. Introducing Comparative Politics II. Consolidated Democracies 2. Britain 3. France 4. India III. Transitional Democracies 5. Russia 6. Mexico 7. South Africa IV. Authoritarian Regimes 8. Iran 9. China