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Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

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Balancing theory with application and featuring an exciting full-color design and engaging, student-friendly writing style, Dr. Hauss s COMPARATIVE POLITICS is the best-selling comprehensive text for Introduction to Comparative Politics. The book uses a unique theme--DOMESTIC RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES--to introduce key concepts and examine the growing interdependence among strong and weak states through the discussion of 11 countries and the European Union. In boxed features that are color-coded for easy cross-reference and comparison, the introduction establishes a comparative structure based on five themes explored for each country. The themes are conflict, democratization, economic liberalization, globalization, and challenges. The countries discussed are categorized by economic development, helping you hone your skills of comparison, synthesis, and interpretation by studying countries of similar economic status. With this uniquely effective text, you can gain an understanding of important political trends and concepts, an exposure to politics in a number of countries, and a desire to dig more deeply into the fascinating field of comparative politics.

Exactly what I needed - The book was in great condition and was the right book that I needed for the class.

A Good Choice for AP Comparative Politics - As an AP Comparative Politics teacher, I have taught out of both the 4th and 5th editions of this book and have found it a good choice for a student text. I find it much more readable (particularly for high school seniors) than some of the more comprehensive texts. If you want to prepare your students adequately, however, you will need to supplement with outside material. For example, the Hauss text does not touch directly on political socialization which is a topic covered on the exam. I use Gabriel Almond s Comparative Politics Today as teacher resource. Hauss delves heavily into the historical background of many of the countries, in particular those in the Third World section. This can be helpful for students who have a weak world history background, but as a teacher you will need to emphasize AP exam vs. background material. Comments on the 5th edition vs. earlier editions: To follow the requirements of the new AP Comparative Gov t exam, this edition adds chapters on Nigeria and Iran. These chapters seem hastily done however as the Nigeria chapter in particular has several typos and the Iran chapter is comparatively short. Chapters on Japan and South Africa are no longer in the printed text but there are on-line chapters on these countries, as well as an on-line chapter on Canada, on the author s website.The 5th edition adds COLOR pictures which is a nice change from the 4th edition and makes the text somewhat more engaging for high school seniors, however compared to other high school texts visual appeal is not high on the publisher s priority list. In summary, a good choice for AP Comparative politics as long as the teacher recognizes the need to supplement from outside sources where necessary.

Semi-interesting - We re using this book for our AP Comparative Government course, and I really have mixed feelings about it. While the information and style of writing is much more interesting than previous AP social studies books that I ve had, the book is a bit dense in its black-and-white format with lots and LOTS of text. The other component that this book is also lacking is a BRIEF run-through or diagram of the countries political systems. If you want to fashion your own condensed version of these systems, you must wade through quite a bit of text that is not particularly well organized.

Great Service - Wonderful service, arrived in a timely fashion and book was in great condition. Thanks again, cheaper than my campus book store!

Adequate, but just barely - Use: University Level Introductory Politics ClassThe good: Basic information on a wide variety of countries, from Mexico to Russia along with the basic outline of third world, newly industrialized countries and the first world. Bias is hard to determine and only slightly apparently in a few chapters. The companion website is excellent offering quizzes, flashcards and up to date information about each chapter. It may even be possible to ignore the book and focus exclusively on the website. Finally, while the chapters are somewhat tedious, the author ties them all together in a manner that allows the study of several chapters at the same time. The bad: The CD is garbage. Absolute garbage. You don t need to even look at it to get a decent grade. The book, while clearly a introductory book is not well suited in many aspects for college level. High school European history teaches at least 25% of the book in superior ways. Also the author has a bad tendency to go from basic to vastly complicated and even writes that the gap between them is too time consuming. If history was a puzzle, this book would only give you the core and the outside pieces. Due to such behavior on the part of the author, the lack of information leading from the introductory information to the complicated makes it difficult to use properly in a college class. To properly understand the assess why things happen and how those events may shape the future, all of the pieces of information must be presented. This book fails to do so. Another bad thing is that the price, while slightly lower then most textbooks of similar design is that it is paperback not hardcover, and therefore cannot be resold for a decent amount at your local bookstore.




Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges