Comparative Politics

Dr Carles Boix, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA This comprehensive introduction to comparative politics by top scholars in the field strikes the right balance between theory and the description of actual politics on the ground. There is no doubt that it is a first-class textbook for undergraduate studies.

Assistant Professor Anna McKeever, Department of Education and Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, UK. An excellent book that engages with the essential concepts of comparative politics. It provides an excellent theoretical basis coupled with a wide range of examples.

Assistant Professor Koen Damhuis, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, Netherlands. This is a first-class textbook on comparative politics, which introduces the key topics in the field in an accessible way, thereby connecting political science "classics", recent research, and actual politics.

Daniele Caramani is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich. He is the author of The Nationalization of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2004)-awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences-and The Europeanization of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2015) as well as of Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra (Sage, 'Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences' 2009) and the handbook and CD-ROM Elections in Western Europe since 1815 (Palgrave 2000). He is co-director of the Constituency-Level Data Archive (CLEA) which received the APSA 'Dataset Award'.

0: Daniele Caramani: Introduction to Comparative Politics Section I: Theories and Methods 1: Bo Rothstein: The Relevance of Comparative Politics 2: B. Guy Peters: Approaches in Comparative Politic 3: Paul Pennings: Comparative Research Methods Section II: The Historical Context 4: Atzuko Ichijo: The Nation-State and Multicultural Citizenship 5: Anibal Perez-Linan: Democracies 6: Natasha Lindstaedt: Authoritarian Regimes Section III: Structures and Institutions 7: Amie Kreppel: Legislatures 8: Wolfgang C Muller: Governments and Cabinets 9: Alec Stone Sweet: Constitutions, Rights, and Judicial Power 10: Nicole Curato: Democratic Innovations 11: Orit Kedar: Elections and Representation 12: iesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Arjan H. Schakel: Multilevel Governance Section IV: Actors and Processes 13: Richard S. Katz: Political Parties 14: Daniele Caramani: Party Systems 15: Roland Erne: Interest Groups 16: Dieter Rucht: Social Movements 17: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart: Political Culture 18: Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm: Political Participation 19: Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch: Political Communication Section V: Public Policies 20: Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun: Policy Making 21: Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow: The Welfare State 22: Jane Gingrich: The Impact of Public Policies Section VI: Beyond the Nation-State 23: Simon Hix: The EU as a New Political System 24: Georg Sorensen: Globalization and the Nation-State 25: Julia Leininger and Solveig Richter: Promoting and Protecting Democracy