Dr. Lisa A. Baglione is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a member of the International Relations Program at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Currently, Dr. Baglione also serves as the co-director of the Gender Studies Program. During her career, Dr. Baglione has conducted research in five areas, and while they are varied, she has benefited from the ways that insights from each have interwoven: negotiations between adversaries, authoritarian transformation, peacebuilding, gender in politics, and pedagogy. She has published two other books, To Agree or Not to Agree: Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control with University of Michigan Press and Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods, now in its fourth edition, with Sage.
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Chapter 1: Getting Started: Inclusivity and Building a Foundation with Concepts and Data Chapter 2: Understanding Democracy: Definition, Institutions, Ideas, and Norms Chapter 3: Taking a Look at Europe Chapter 4: Politics in the U.K.: How Did British Politics Go from Staid to Unstable? Chapter 5: Overview of Communism: Revolution, Political Institutions, Political Economy and Political Culture Chapter 6: Taking a Look: Post-Soviet States Chapter 7: Politics in Russia: Why Is Authoritarianism So Seemingly Stable Despite Earlier Hopes for Democratic Change? Chapter 8: Taking a Look: East, Southeast, and South (ESEA) Asia Chapter 9: Politics in China: How Can Such Economic Success Exist with Political Repression? Chapter 10: Overview of the Global South: Experiences with Globalization Chapter 11: Taking a Look at Latin America Chapter 12: Politics in Mexico: How Can Democratization Proceed with Such Inequality, Corruption, and Violence? Chapter 13: Taking a Look at the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Chapter 14: Politics in Egypt: Why & How the "Arab Spring" Became the Egyptian Winter Chapter 15: Taking a Look at Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 16: Politics in Nigeria: Why Can't the Giant of Africa Awake? Chapter 17: Concluding Your Studies: What You've Learned from a Data-Intensive, Interactive, Concept-Focused, and Inclusive Approach to Comparative Politics