Comparative Political Analysis, Ist Edition

Foreword

It is with great pleasure that I write this foreword to a book written by a group of rigorous scholars and teachers, who have chosen to put together a much-needed textbook on Comparative Politics.

In the overall teaching of Political Science, the transition from the old institutional perspective to a more dynamic, critical and alternative perspective—the study of comparative politics as it evolved in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s—provided an important point of entry. At the University of Delhi, there had been a concerted attempt to change this in the mid-1980s, when new syllabi for the undergraduate degree were introduced by the parent Department of Political Science, under the dynamic leadership of Professor Manoranjan Mohanty. A range ...