Book Title: A Casebook for Comparative Politics
Subtitle: An Open and Collaborative Educational Resource
Edited by Mark L. Johnson
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Book Description: A companion casebook for lower division/undergraduate courses in Comparative Government and Intro to Political Science. Each chapter covers an individual case study country, with emphasis on key concepts commonly covered in the intro-level Political Science curriculum. The current version (1.2 - January 2026) contains eleven (11) cases. Faculty who use this book are encouraged to fill out an Adoption Report.
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This book is intended to serve as a companion text for courses in Comparative Politics, Introduction to Political Science, and similar subjects. The target audience is lower-division undergraduates. Each chapter constitutes a single country (case), with material on seven (7) major topics: History, Identity, Culture and Civil Society, Participation, Formal Institutions, Political Economy, and Foreign Relations.
If you choose to adopt this book for your course, please consider filling out an Adoption Report.
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A Casebook for Comparative Politics Copyright © 2025 by See the Copyright Notice for details is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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A Casebook for Comparative Politics Copyright © 2025 by See the Copyright Notice for details is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Each chapter is attributed to the specific author, and each author maintains their intellectual property rights under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. Chapters may be re-used on an individual basis, according to the terms of the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, which reads: “This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.”