The discipline of Comparative Politics is becoming popular owing to the utilization of more and more sophisticated tools for understanding and explaining Political Reality. Inter- disciplinary focus on the themes of political significance has been responsible for explaining the frontiers of Political Science in the direction of an empirical study of several uncultivated regions considered as non- nation areas. The outcome is that traditional approaches to the study of politics resting primarily on the foundations of history, ethics and law are being replaced by new approaches drawing inspiration from the varied disciplines of Social Sciences like Sociology, Economics and Psychology. The trend is towards taking the study of politics to the level of a scientific enquiry into the phenomenon of power. In modern times the study of Modern Politics has assumed significance because of remarkable developments both at national and international levels of politics. The decline of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and the spread of democracy in and around the world have added new dimensions to the core subject of politics. These dynamics in the politics have become the order of the day which highlights the existence and role of various political and Para- political institutions in the world politics. What becomes important is that the scope of subject has expanded which has helped in investigating and analyzing the working of the states in the present age of democratization, modernization, liberalization and globalization. The changes in the domain of the subject are momentous and profound. The present volume is one such attempt to highlight and deal with the varied concerns and notions of Comparative Politics.