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).

This latest edition (Version 1.1, released in July 2025) covers the original seven cases from the pre-edition, plus additional chapters on France, India, and Canada.   Approximately a dozen additional cases are under development, and will be released in new Versions through the end of Calendar Year 2025.  Potential contributors should contact MarkL.Johnson@minnesota.edu for further information.

The original pre-edition (Version 1.0, released in January 2025) contained seven (7) cases, on the United Kingdom, Kenya, Nigeria, Germany, Greece, Cuba, and the Republic of Ireland.

Faculty members using this book are encouraged to submit an Adoption Report.