POLSC221: Introduction to Comparative Politics
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Discover the world of comparative politics with our comprehensive study guides. Explore topics like democracy, political structures, and ideology. Gain a deeper understanding of political systems and their similarities and differences. Start your journey in social science and comparative politics today.
Comparativists (practitioners of comparative politics) seek to identify and understand the similarities and differences among political systems by breaking broad topics such as democracy or freedom down into the factors we find in individual systems.
We call this general approach the comparative method, whose goal is to identify the factors and/or categories of analysis to compare and contrast different political phenomena.
Unit 1: Social Science and Comparative Politics
Unit 2: The Nation-State
Unit 3: Democratic States and Democratization
Unit 4: Comparing Political Structures and Institutions
Unit 5: Political Behavior
Unit 6: Comparing Ideology, Policy, and Decision-Making
Unit 7: Comparative Case Studies
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