Comparative Politics Today Gabriel Almond Pdf

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ComparativePolitics Today is the text that defined the discipline of comparative politics and continues to set the standard for the course with a brand new Web site and the most current country study chapters available. The chapters on England, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Japan, and the United States have all been thoroughly updated. A new, highly interactive Comparative Politics Web site (www.ablongman.com/comparativepolitics) is sure to engage today's students and help them learn. The site's features include: country profiles, interactive maps, practice tests, news links, web links, and more. As in the previous edition, theoretical chapters (Chapters 1 - 7) at the beginning of the book explore the "purpose of government" and provide students with a framework for understanding comparative politics. The theoretical section is followed by 12 individual country studies. All country studies are written by pre-eminent specialists on that particular country, ensuring that students have the most reliable information and insights into the political systems of those nations.

Andreas Wiedemann is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His broader research focuses on topics in political economy and comparative politics in advanced democracies, specifically on financial markets, wealth inequality, and social policies. In his current work, he explores the political causes and consequences of household indebtedness across countries, the effects of wealth in general and debt in particular on economic insecurity, and the consequences of rising indebtedness on electoral behavior and political attitudes toward redistribution and the welfare state. His research has been supported by the John Fell Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, among others. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2018.

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