A Note for Faculty
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. The book was originally designed to complement the ASCCC-OERI introductory textbook in Comparative Politics (Bozonelos et al. 2022), but could also be used with similar texts in both Comparative Politics (such as Oberle et al. 2024) or Introductory Political Science (such as Rom et al. 2022).
The following table reflects major changes in Version numbers. Approximately a dozen additional cases are under development, and will be released in new Versions through the middle of Calendar Year 2026. Potential contributors should contact MarkL.Johnson@minnesota.edu for further information.
| Version Number (Release Date) | Additions and Updates |
| 1.11 (Oct 2025) | Updated information on new government formation and election results for Germany; Minor corrections (typos and grammar) to selected cases; addition of Adoption Report link for faculty adopters |
| 1.1 (July 2025) | Case chapters added for France, India, and Canada |
| 1.0 (Jan 2025) | Initial publication with chapters on the United Kingdom, Kenya, Nigeria, Germany, Greece, Cuba, and the Republic of Ireland. |
Prospective faculty authors who wish to propose a case chapter addition are encouraged to contact MarkL.Johnson@minnesota.edu .
Faculty members using this book are encouraged to submit an Adoption Report.
