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Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges, Paper Version
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Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges, Paper Versionby Charles Hauss
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: great text for high school students, not as good for college, February 13, 2002 Reviewer:John T. Jenkins (Newport News, VA United States) - I teach AP Government to 12th grade students and this is the book that we use. I have copies of other AP Comparative Pol. texts and this is the best one for high school students in my opinion. It is organized in an easy-to-understand format with excellent introductory chapters on each of the three major types of countries studied. Each country chapter is written in readable prose with pictures and feature boxes, which helps break up the monotony. There are some shortcomings, however. Mainly, the book does not pose a lot of real questions that require higher-level thinking. Also, what the chapters are really missing is a concise, simple explanation of the key elements of government (how members are elected, how legislation moves through, etc). These are some of the important facts that students should be familiar with. To any instructor using this book, I suggest you augment your class notes with information from other texts, such as Theen and Wilson's "Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Seven Countries."
Book Description
Balancing theory with application and now in a new, exciting full-color design, Dr. Hauss' COMPARATIVE politics is the best-selling comprehensive text for the Introduction to Comparative politics course. The book uses a unique theme?DOMESTIC RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES?to introduce key concepts and examines the growing interdependence among strong and weak States through the discussion of 12 countries. The introduction establishes a comparative structure based on 5 themes that are treated as appropriate for each individual country in color-coded boxed features. The themes are conflict, democratization, economic liberalization, globalization, and challenges. The countries discussed are categorized by economic development, helping students develop their skills of comparison, synthesis and interpretation amongst countries of similar economic status. Students will gain an understanding of some of the most important general trends, an exposure to politics in a number of countries, and a desire to dig more deeply into this fascinating and exciting field of comparative politics.
About The Author
Charles "Chip" Hauss wears three professional hats?adjunct Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, author of books on conflict resolution, comparative politics, and international relations, and Director of Policy and research at Search for Common Ground USA. Before joining the faculty at George Mason in 1993, Hauss received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan. He then spent 1975 to 1992 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. From 1995 to 1998, he was Visiting Professor at Reading University in the United Kingdom. Hauss has taught a wide variety of courses in comparative politics, international relations, and peace studies. Geographically, he is most interested in Western Europe, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Substantively, his teaching has concentrated on how societies implement large-scale social and political change in a nonviolent manner. He includes active use of the Internet in all his teaching. He is the author of seven books. COMPARATIVE politics is one of the most widely used textbooks in the field. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION was published in July 2001. BEYOND CONFRONTATION (1996) explores the need for and possibility of cooperative conflict resolution. In addition, he has written two books on French politics, one on the new left of the 1960s/1970s and the other on the first quarter century of Gaullist rule. He has also translated Bernard Chavance's THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMUNIST SYSTEMS from French into English.
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