POLI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comparative Politics, Inductive Reasoning, Modernization Theory
18 Mar 2016
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Understand political phenomena by discriminating between relevant and. What is relevant depends on the questions we ask. Politics (patrick o"neill): politics is about power relations. Politics is about learning how to live together. Politics is the struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group. It is the competition for public power and power is the ability to extend one"s will. The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries: elections, political parties, revolutions and judicial systems) Building comparisons so we can come up with reliable, robust, valid answers. The comparative approach to politics only emerged with the works of italian. Ideals (beliefs and values about preferred outcomes: helps us compare existing politics to what we might prefer. Modernization theory: a set of hypothesis about how countries develop. Conflicts in comparative politics: methodology qualitative vs. quantitative.
