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This collection of readings provides an introduction to the classic works and contemporary ideas in comparative politics—and shows how they fit together into a larger understanding of the field.
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O'Neil (U. of Puget Sound) and Rogowski (U. of California at Los Angeles) present an anthology that is intended to complement O'Neil's Essentials of Comparative Politics through the presentation 51 original readings they view as key works or containing original ideas in the field of comparative politics. Writers represented include Max Weber, Eric Hobspawm, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Fareed Zakaria, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Paul Collier, Samuel P. Huntington, Francis Fukuyama, James K. Galbraith, and Joseph Nye. The readings are presented in chapters that parallel those of the aforementioned textbook, dealing with definitions and methodologies of comparative politics, the state, nations and society, political economy, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, democracy, advanced democracies, communism and post-communism, less-developed and newly industrializing countries, globalization, and political violence. A Cases in Comparative Politics, in which O'Neil also had a hand, is also available from Norton. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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