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Comparative Politics Today: A World View

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I bought this book for one of my first political science classes. Awesome book to references gives great detail about how the various governmental structures in the international realm function. Some minor details that change about seats, parties, constitutions correspond with the year but other than looking up those few details. Great book for any political science major to own.

I took the class with 2 of the authors, and the text provided me an in-depth learning experience with the comparative government field.

I am an 11th grader using this book in my AP Government class, and I have not been thourougly impressed with this book. It is incredibly dense and hard to follow. (It usually takes me over two hours to do a Chapters worth of notes.) The vocabulary words are rarely defined and usually lack contextual clues as well.

If this book is to be used for a high school AP class, then it should come with more resources for either the teacher (so they have a thorough understanding of the book) or else for the students.

From what I can tell, this book has a lot of useful information, and seems to be a decent resource if the students and teacher are willing to put the time into it. Unfortunately, with an AP test four months away, time is in short supply.

I found this book's literal weight significantly greater than its intellectual weight. No where in the book does it ever give ANY definitions for the vocabulary words, most of which are unique to politics; one cannot even glean a hint of a definition from context. The book was written by different authors, some of whom were worth reading, but mostly not. The chapter on England had such horrendous grammatical and spelling errors, I couldn't keep reading it (I have no idea how it is in its eighth edition). Most of the book used casual phrases for the lay person but never gets into the specifics of what I need to learn about the functioning of international politics. The book was awful. Had I not wanted to recoup some of my wasted money, I would have covered every page in red ink and sent it back to the publishers for proof reading. It was extensive, but never really got to the core of the topic.

This text was used in the course of comparative politics I am currently taking with 2 of its authors. The book is quiet deep and is definitely not for use in teaching AP COMPARATIVE GOVT. Introduction is pretty long and boring.

The book I received was somewhat wet,which may have been due to rain water seeping inside the packet somehow so some of the pages became damp and got stuck together.Otherwise,it was OK.