Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, 3rd ed.

by Timothy C. Lim

Overview

This systematic, user friendly, and refreshingly unusual introduction to comparative politics has not only been updated and refined in the third edition, but also fully revised to reflect the impact of major new developments in world politics.

Designed to teach students how to think comparatively and theoretically about the world they live in, the book is organized around a set of critical questions—why are poor countries poor? why is East Asia relatively prosperous? what makes a democracy? how can we explain terrorism and genocide? what leads people to mobilize around a cause?—each the topic of a full chapter. These issue chapters are based on the solid methodological and theoretical foundation laid out in the first part of the book, and the entire text is enhanced with case studies and graphics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626374508
Publisher:	Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	409
Sales rank:	271,210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Timothy C. Lim is professor of political science at California State University, Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

Unlike most other texts in comparative politics that focus on country cases, Lim’s valuable book gives students the skills to become critical thinkers and to actually DO comparative politics themselves.

Claudio Holzner