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Dictionary of Comparative Politics

A fully-searchable dictionary, defining over 450 key terms in comparative politics.

Guide to Comparative Politics on the Internet

The internet is an exceptional research tool, for political science in general and for comparative politics in particular. This guide will help you to make the most effective use of this medium.

Country Indicators

This spreadsheet builds on the indicators included in the country profiles in Hague and Harrop. The spreadsheet contains eight indicators for all 151 countries with a population of at least one million, using the CIA’s estimates of population for July 2007. It excludes microstates (many of them islands) with a population below one million. Blanks indicate missing data.

Guide to Country Indicators

This document describes the indicators, provides links to sources and outlines some EXCEL tools that can be used to interrogate the data.

Chapter-by-Chapter Resources

Whether through checking your understanding against the chapter summary, testing your knowledge with a marked multiple choice quiz, or extending your thinking through exploring web links and further reading, these resources will help you apply the lessons of each chapter.

The chapter-by-chapter resources are:

• Multiple Choice Questions
• Essay Questions
• Chapter Summaries
• Weblinks
• References