TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oberle,Holly
AU  - Kelley,Sadie
AU  - Robson,Juston
AU  - Cook,Trevor
AU  - Pepin,Lauren
AU  - Brimhall,Molly
AU  - Patten,Kyle
AU  - Williams,Joe
AU  - Chambers,Addison
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - Comparative Politics: A Practical Guide for a Globalizing World
T2  - Open textbook library
AV  - H1 
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Political Science
N1  - Contents -- Chapter 1: Why Study Comparative Politics -- Chapter 2: How to Study Comparative Politics -- Chapter 3: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Comparative Method -- Chapter 4: States and Regimes -- Chapter 5: Theories of State Emergence -- Chapter 6: Democracy -- Chapter 7: Theories of Democratization and Democratic Consolidation -- Chapter 8: Authoritarianism -- Chapter 9: Theories of Authoritarian Persistence and Democratic Backsliding -- Chapter 10: Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Weblinks and Databases
N2  - Comparative Politics: A Practical Guide for a Globalizing World is perhaps the first to be written with an emphasis on case studies from the Global South and other alternative perspectives in comparative politics. This text focuses on themes and case studies that are often missing in more traditional comparative politics textbooks, and thus is best accompanied by other resources to give students a foundation in the fundamentals
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1651
ER  -