CQ Press

This innovative hybrid book is fully ideal for lecturers who want to give their students a real sense of the questions that drive research in the field. Organized thematically around important concepts in comparative politics-Who rules? What explains political behaviour? Where and why?-the book integrates a set of extended case studies in eleven...

The author provides clear and accessible explanations and instruction, and takes a "how-to" approach, so students not only understand the maths, but can do the maths. Exercises include those requiring hand-calculations and those requiring a statistical package like SPSS, and ask students to produce memos to emphasize how marketable and applicable...

After observing the strains of intense partisanship and divided government, many Americans are wondering what logic, if any, can be found in politics. The new Sixth Edition of The Logic of American Politics reaffirms this best-seller's place as the most accessible "smart" book on the market. Consistently praised for its engaging narrative, the book...

So often, political science is introduced to students as a segmented field. The Challenge of Politics instead enables students to see how the subfields converge around a set of crucial questions: can we as citizens and students articulate and defend a view of the good political life and its guiding political values? Can we develop a science of...

The combination of biographical narrative with explanation and analysis makes abstract theories understandable while showing how subject scholars relate to each other in their work, providing much needed context. The book's chronological organization shows the evolution of public administration theory over time. With the new edition, the authors...

Renowned scholar Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who set the standard for the scientific approach to international relations and transformed the field, has returned with a reformulated fifth edition based on extensive reviewer feedback and guided by an emphasis on questions about the causes and consequences of war, peace, and world order. More than ever...