Cases in Comparative Politics

by Patrick H. O'Neil, Karl Fields, Don Share

The most contemporary, easy-to-use case book
Cases in Comparative Politics is the best-selling case book for the course because it uses a consistent framework to illustrate major concepts in comparative politics. Featuring coverage of the 13 most-taught countries, Cases combines foundational knowledge with the most ruthlessly up-to-date coverage to foster easier comparison across countries.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Textbooks, Academic, Political Science, History

608 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2009

Reviews

[Mayim de Vries · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent companion to Essentials of Comparative Politics that can help with course assignments.

[Rania · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually have the 7th edition, but it's a pretty good textbook!

[julia rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

read for comparative politics class. read whole book & took notes and found it pretty easy to digest and clear to the reader. one star off for occasionally annoying sentences and remarks.

[Z.J. Rubin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good intro to a lot of core ideas but I lost braincells at times

[Anna Huener · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book made me want to study comparative politics. I actually think that’s what I’m going to do. I was on an airplane a couple days ago and an economics professor from Georgia(the country) was next to me. We ended up talking about world politics and global governance and for the first time ever in one of those conversations I knew what I was talking about. This is of course because of my professor, too. For a textbook, this was extremely interesting, and I recommend.

[Kathleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

in my opinion, this book does an inadequate job of demonstrating the way in which political institutions determine political outcomes. also, there is less of an emphasis on inequality in this book than i would like. the only real advantage this book has over other materials for teaching a comparative politics class is the price--it is cheap compared to its competitors.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this text. It was rather eye opening to the varieties of governmental structures in the world.

[Mevia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting textbook comparing world governments.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this. so informative