It's tough to keep students afloat in a sea of detail when moving from country to country in a comparative course. While it's important to give students a sense of place, lengthy textbooks can overwhelm them with far too much description. Students are left with no clear path for understanding regional context or for making meaningful cross-national comparisons, and little sense of larger concepts and themes. "The Politics of Governing: A Comparative Introduction" answers this dilemma in a truly brief text - only 320 pages long - that frames country case studies within regional chapters. This...
It's tough to keep students afloat in a sea of detail when moving from country to country in a comparative course. While it's important to give studen...
This study fills a void in the literature of Latin American politics by offering a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the state and its bureaucratic components in the various nations of the region. The author notes at the onset that the complexity of the state apparatus in Latin America--ranging from the entrenched bureaucracy of Brazil to the minimal administrative capabilities of Nicaragua--presents both a challenge and a problem for analysts. His unique contribution here is combining an overview of public bureaucracy in Latin America with a series of country and regional profiles....
This study fills a void in the literature of Latin American politics by offering a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the state and its burea...
