Comparative Politics 2104-GPIR-D1COPO
The range of comparative politics is very broad due to the ambition to answer the meta-questions: What is politics? How does it function? How can we interpret it? The underlying premise of research in the field of the comparative politics is to test theoretical concepts by using examples.
Detailed syllabus includes:
- Introduction to comparative politics.
- Comparative politics among sciences of politics. Comparative political economy.
- The evolution of comparative politics. Comparative politics in pre-modern, modern, and post-modern times.
- Political influences on comparative politics.
- Approaches to comparative politics: main schools and alternative perspectives. How to use theories in practice. The Five “I’s”.
- Comparative research methods. Application of methods in comparative politics. Case selection. Cases and variables in comparative analysis.
- Workshops: preparation and presentation of a complex comparative analysis by students.
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Term 2023Z:
The range of comparative politics is very broad due to the ambition to answer the meta-questions: What is politics? How does it function? How can we interpret it? The underlying premise of research in the field of the comparative politics is to test theoretical concepts by using examples. |
Term 2024Z:
The range of comparative politics is very broad due to the ambition to answer the meta-questions: What is politics? How does it function? How can we interpret it? The underlying premise of research in the field of the comparative politics is to test theoretical concepts by using examples. |
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Learning outcomes
Students have knowledge on comparative studies and are able to prepare complex comparative analysis themselves.
Assessment criteria
Students will get ranking on the basis of their attendance and work during the whole course, and – in particular - preparation and presentation of a complex comparative analysis.
Final test - ten open questions
Bibliography
G.A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell Jr., Comparative Politics. System, Process, and Policy, Boston-Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1976 (second edition).
J. Blondel, Then and Now: Comparative Politics, “Political Studies” 1999, Vol. 47, No. 1.
P. Burnham et al., Research Methods in Politics, Basingstoke-New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
B. Clift, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2014.
Comparative Politics, D. Caramani (ed.), OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, first published 2008.
Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic Systems, J. Bara, M. Pennington (eds.), Los Angeles, SAGE, 2009.
M.E. Ethridge, H. Handelman, Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science, Boston, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2010.
T. Landman, Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction, ROUTLEDGE, 2007, second edition.
A. Lijphart, Comparative Politics and Comparative Method, “The American Political Science Review” 1971, Vol. 65, Issue 3.
J.M. Magone, Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction, Abingdon-New York, Routledge, 2011.
K. Newton, J.W. van Deth, Foundations of Comparative Politics, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, second edition.
P.H. O’Neil, K. Fields, D. Share, Cases in Comparative Politics, New York-London, Norton Company 2009.
B.G. Peters, Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods, MACMILLAN, 1998.
G.B. Powell jr., R.J. Dalton, K. Stromm, Comparative Politics Today: A Theoretical Framework, PEARSON, 2011, sixth edition.
P.W. Zagorski, Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World, London-New York, Routledge, 2009.
Sources selected by students according to the topics of their comparative analysis.
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