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Comparative Politics Today: A World View, Update (7th Edition)
by: Gabriel Abraham Almond, Kaare Strom, G. Bingham, Jr. Powell
10 July, 2002
Publisher: Longman; ISBN: 0321089820

Illuminates the often challenging field of comparative politics. Specialists provide twelve individual country studies to present a clear and reliable summation of their assorted political structures. Explores the purpose of government, current policy changes, and example  illustrations and discussions of each.

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Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
by: Paul Pennings, Hans Keman, kleinnijenhui, Jan Kleinnijenhuis
March, 1999
Publisher: Sage Publications; ISBN: 0761951032

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Students of political science will welcome this accessible introduction to methods and statistics. The authors introduce the  main theories and methodologies employed from across the social sciences in  understanding and doing comparative political research. They outline the importance of the relationship of theory and method to empirical analytical  research; introduce both basic descriptive and advanced multivariate and explanatory statistical techniques; and demonstrate the application of these methods and techniques to a number of research questions drawn from contemporary themes and issues in political science.

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Comparative Politics : Rationality, Culture, and Structure
by: Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman
November, 1997
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521586682

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Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and  Structure brings together leading political scientists to assess the research  schools that direct scholarship in comparative politics. It examines rational  choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches, by applying  them to the study of electoral politics, social movements and revolutions, political economy and the state. The essays return analysis to basic questions concerning the development of theory and the nature of explanations. The contributors are established scholars and pioneers in the various subfields of comparative politics

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