Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches And Issues

by Timothy C. Lim

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Systematic, coherent, and user friendly, this decidedly nontraditional introduction to comparative politics is designed to teach students how to think comparatively and theoretically about the world they live in. The core of the book is organized around a set of critical questions - why are poor countries poor? Why is East Asia rich? What makes a democracy? What makes a terrorist? What makes a social movement? - 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. Graphics and definition boxes enhance the text. "Doing Comparative Politics" will stimulate your students to critically engage with both the content and the methods of the field.

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Great Introduction to Comparative Politics, 2006-09-11
This was the textbook in my first comparative politics class. My experiecne can tell you that Doing Comparative Politics is definitely one of the best introductory textbooks in the field of comparative politics in terms of theories, methods, and their application.

Encompassing all three major traditions of comparative politics, i.e., rational choice theory, structuralism, and culturalism, Lim offers us tools enough to begin comparative analysis on our own. He further explains how to use standard comparative methods, such as the most similar systems design and the most different systems design. This allows us to control for confounding factors.

All these theories and methods make much more sense in his application to particular issues, like democratization, terrorism, and others. You can actually see how to use all these theories and methods in analyzing on-going political issues!! This allowed me to produce a 40-page research paper on democratization, which I used as a writing sample in applying to Ph.D programs in political science.

All in all, this is a must reading for anyone who is interested in comparative politics. Had it not been for this book, I would have not been a Ph.D. student in political science.

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