Annual Editions: Comparative Politics 12/13

The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Annual Editions volumes have a number of organizational features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of supporting World Wide Web sites; Learning Outcomes and a brief overview at the beginning of each unit; and a Critical Thinking section at the end of each article. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details. Sample questions asked in the 30th edition of Annual Editions: Comparative Politics 12/13: As summarized in When Politics Is Not Just a Mans Game: Womens Representation and Political Engagement, what are the two important qualifications regarding the links between womens representation and womens political engagement that the comparative research offers? As suggested in Smart Dictators Dont Quash the Internet, the most urgent Internet question facing many dictators today is what to do about American social networking sites like Facebook. As set forth in Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings, it has been shown that political parties make no contribution to democratic stability.