Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics written by Craig N. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within Political Science. Comparative Politics, the discipline devoted to the politics of other countries or peoples, has been steadily gaining prominence as a field of study, allowing politics to be viewed from a wider foundation than a concentration on domestic affairs would permit.