The transition from authoritarian to democratic government in Brazil unleashed profound changes in government and society that cannot be adequately understood from any single theoretical perspective.
Despite worldwide interest in the Portuguese Revolution of 1974, Portugal remained for most people a little known and poorly understood country, neglected for years by social scientists. Editors Graha
Graham (U. of Texas at Austin) and his co-authors have designed this undergraduate-level textbook to serve either as an introduction to comparative politics or political science in general, in combina
