Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Comparative Politics Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Comparative Politics
Part of this reading list is printed in Devanagari, which the University's own PDF does not release as reliable text. Those entries are not set here; they are in the document above, as she printed them.
Module 1: Comparative Politics
- 1 Meaning, Scope and Significance
- 2 Approaches to Study
- 3 Constitutionalism: Meaning and Features of Constitutionalism
Module 2: Political System in Major Democracies
- 1 UK
- 2 USA
- 3 France
Module 3: Political System in Emerging Powers
- 1 China
- 2 Russia
- 3 Japan
Module 4: Political System in Middle East
- 1 UAE
- 2 Saudi Arabia
- 3 Iran
Text Books
- 1 Charles Hauss, Comparative Politics, Cengage Learning, 2019 (10th Edition)
- 2 Rod Hague, Martin Harrop & John McCormick, Comparative Government and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan
- 3 J.C. Johari, Comparative Politics, Sterling Publishers
- 4 Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas, Cengage Learning 2018
- 5 O. P. Gauba, An Introduction to Comparative Politics, National Publishing House
- 6 S.R. Maheshwari, Comparative Government and Politics, Lakshmi Narain Agarwal
- 7 V. Bhagwan & Vidya Bhushan, Modern Political Systems, S. Chand Publishing
- 8 Gabriel Almond and G. Bingham Powell, Comparative Politics Today: A World View, Pearson Education.
- 9 Bill Jones, Philip Norton, Politics in the United Kingdom, Routledge publication
- 10 Barbara Bardes, Mack Shelley, Steffen Schmidt, American Government and Politics Today, Publisher: Cengage Learning
- 11 Nigel Bowles, The Government and Politics of the United States, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- 12 Robert Elgie, French Politics, Publisher: Routledge
- 13 Anne Stevens, Government and Politics of France, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- 14 David Shambaugh, The Government and Politics of China, Oxford University Press
- 15 Stephen White, Politics in Russia, Cambridge University Press
- 16 Kenneth Pyle, Japanese Politics Today, Oxford University Press
- 17 Germaine A. Hoston, The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan, Princeton University Press
- 18 Mark Gasiorowski, The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Westview Press
- 19 Michele Penner Angrist, Politics and Society in the Middle East, Lynne Rienner Publishers
- 20 Andrew Scott Cooper, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- 21 Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, University of California Press