A Comparative Introduction. This popular and highly praised text provides a lively and accessible introduction to the governance and politics of Europe.Thematically structured to address the key institutions and issues, it is genuinely pan-European in scope. Although no country is ignored, a range of representative countries the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK as well as the European Union itself, are used as key examples throughout the book and each of them is the subject of an in-depth double-page country profiles.