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Comparative government or comparative politics is a method in political science for obtaining evidence of causal effects by comparing the varying forms of government in the world, and the states they govern, although governments across different periods of history may also be the units of comparison. There are several methods at work in comparative government (method of difference as opposed method of similarity and variable as opposed case study approaches) but all have in common the explanation of differential changes in dependent variable by the presence of different independent variables in the systems under comparison. The nature of dependent (what is to be explained) and independent variables (what explains the pattern of the dependent variable) in the method is almost unlimited, from government form to electoral system to economic or cultural factors
It has areas of concentration that include topics such as democratization, state-society relations, identity and ethnic politics, social movements, institutional analysis, and political economy. Methodologies used in comparative politics include rational choice theory; and political cultural, political economy, and institutional approaches. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Thomas Hobbes are some of the key early thinkers in this subdiscipline.
Connection to international relations
Comparative politics is not a subfield of international relations. How each government conducts its foreign policy is a consideration inside comparative politics. International relations is the study of these interactions and the process of these interactions. These two fields do of course overlap, but are separate fields of study. More on [ Comparative government ]
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hates somvichian yet loves comparative politics.
shakeitkatie (Katherine Kimble) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:51:45 -0000
hates somvichian yet loves comparative politics.
comparative politics is the worst class ever. taking a study break to eat some dessert :)
joeneill (Joey Gribbin) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:27:09 -0000
comparative politics is the worst class ever. taking a study break to eat some dessert :)
@melisagul Haha lucky! My Comparative Politics exam is mostly on China and Russia.
zade28 (Zade Marwan) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:14:43 -0000
@melisagul Haha lucky! My Comparative Politics exam is mostly on China and Russia.
Comparative Politics final also went pretty well. 2 down, 1 to go!
LaJacobine (CB) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:23:02 -0000
Comparative Politics final also went pretty well. 2 down, 1 to go!
Comparative Politics Exam on deck. "Let's go get 'em" *jay-z voice*.
_THEMUSE_ (A. BYRD) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:23:31 -0000
Comparative Politics Exam on deck. "Let's go get 'em" *jay-z voice*.
studying for the hardest comparative politics final ever tomorrow, wish me luck!
vivre_votre_vie (Olivia Solomon) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:48:46 -0000
studying for the hardest comparative politics final ever tomorrow, wish me luck!
Democracy (CSID) - CSID is a membership-based non-profit and non-private (501-c-3) think tank dedicated to studying the relationship between Islam and democracy.
British Government and Politics - Politics and government in the United Kingdom and Europe including government publications
Meta Description: [ Links to British government and political sites on the web including, government departments,acts and reports: mainly British but with some European and international sites,compiled by a retired English librarian ]
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Comparative and Foreign Governments on the Internet - Walter C. Koerner Library
Election Resources on the Internet - Links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics.
Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success (EREPS) - Research network providing data on West European extreme right parties. Papers, analysis, voting trends, data sets and documents.
Meta Description: [ The EREPS research network provides data on West European Extreme Right parties and their electorates, including election results, recent developments, and sociodemographic and attitudinal profiles of Extreme Right voters across time. ]
Global city regions - Comparative research project on the transformation of governance under the dynamics of globalization, focusing on global city regions.
Meta Description: [ global city regions ]
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - Latin American information resource based on a country by country or subject by subject search.
Nation Planet - A multilingual link site on nationalism, identity, separatism, regionalism, and ethnicism.
Meta Description: [ Site has been closed. ]
Political Science in Australia - List of web resources for Australian, Austrian and German Politics.
Political Sim - Free open-source software for voting and election games and simulations.
Meta Description: [ Free open-source software for voting and election games and simulations, or lectures and research. ]
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Poly-Cy Guide to Internet Resources for Political Science - Offers categorized links to sites relating to specific topics in comparative politics, area studies, and academic subfields.
Renewal of Democracy - Reasons for deficiencies in political and macro-economic performance - Prerequisites of an efficient democracy; Proposals for renewing the democratic process in European countries. Body German.
Meta Description: [ Reasons for long-term political and macro-economic failures - Establishing the prerequisites of an efficient democracy (Body in German) ]
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - Collaborative program of cross-national research among election study teams in over fifty states. About, download data, resources and bibliography.
Meta Description: [ The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative, cross-national, multi-level survey research data collection conducted by election study teams in over fifty countries around the world. A consistent set of questions are asked in each country in order to facilitate comparative... ]
The Role of the Constitution - The role of the constitution and the law in a free society by a professor of constitutional law.
Meta Description: [ The Role Of The Constitution And The Law In A Free Society. ]
Will H. Moore's Home Page - Data sets and information. Great site for Polity I-IV data.
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