Students examine theoretical and methodological underpinnings and diverse examples of 'best practice' in research and writing in comparative politics of the broad discipline of political science.

Lectures and seminar discussions focus both on important areas of research in comparative politics and methodological challenges involved. Readings treat such variegated topics of inquiry and debate ...

By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics.

Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His four lectures, titled Our Democratic Future, will consider how to build political systems that work ...

This lecture demonstrates how the emerging field of comparative premodern studies can benefit from ... the dēmos is threatened with reverting to ethnos, a political-progressive concept of the European ...

American Political Science Review "...ambitious comparative analysis...highly sophisticated theoretical book... this is an imperessive, empirical, methodological, and theoretical addition to the ...