Comparative Politics
Mapping Institutions, Power, and Legitimacy
- Eric Langenbacher - Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Comparative Politics: Mapping Institutions, Power, and Legitimacy introduces students to the foundations of comparative politics while using mapping and data analysis to encourage them to think critically about ever-changing global relationships. Author Eric Langenbacher examines the key concepts of power and legitimacy through a variety of viewpoints, emphasizing the choices institutions make and why they make them. As students explore themes through world geography and data-based cases, they learn to reevaluate traditional ideas about national and other political borders and better assess the performance of political institutions.
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This book successfully introduces a new reader to core theories and concepts of comparative politics, all the while interweaving timely and illustrative case studies. It is also thoroughly accessible and creative, enabling a wide coverage of topics from the largest and most complex of institutions (states and regimes) to the most local of interactions (civil society). The case for educating students in comparative politics has never been stronger, and I look forward to using this text in my class.
Mapping Comparative Politics does a fantastic job of making sense of our complex world, while introducing a varied toolkit for comparative analysis. The generation of students in our classrooms today are highly visual thinkers and Langenbacher brilliantly uses a variety of maps to help them understand dynamics of power, politics and legitimacy from different perspectives. With its truly global outlook and lots of engaging examples, this book makes teaching comparative politics both systematic and fun.
This concise, well-written textbook covers a broad range of comparative politics concepts in an accessible manner. The author's use of maps helps students visualize how theoretical concepts play out in a real-world context.
This book takes a new and interesting approach to introduce students to the foundations of comparative politics.
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