Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure

Unless you are a master's or PhD student specializing solely in comparative politics, don't read this book. It was assigned to my comparative politics class (master's level) and everyone hated it. I trudged through 50 pages until I just couldn't take it anymore. Very poorly written and vague, but drenched in academic-sounding details. Lim's "Doing Comparative Politics" and Landman's "Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics" are much more clearly written and easier to understand.