Readings in Comparative Politics is divided into six sections - States and Regimes, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, Politics of Collective Identity, Political Institutions and Public Policies and Political Challenges and Changing Agendas - that correspond to the four main themes found in Kesselman's Introduction to Comparative Politics survey text. The selected readings are drawn from a variety of published, unpublished and electronic sources. They tend to be general and theoretical in nature and were carefully selected to provide a good sample of the wide range of popular and scholarly views relevant to the major topics presented in a comparative politics course.