Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of Comparative Politics, Third Edition, Foundations of Comparative Politics presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing students with a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters to them. This condensed, accessible format introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics, using brief insights from tools such as decision, social choice, and game theory to help them understand clearly why some explanations for political phenomena are stronger than others.