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| What is Political Science? |
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| International Relations, Comparative Politics, American Politics Public Policy, Formal Theory, etc |
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| What is Comparative Politics? |
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| “The study of domestic politics around the world” |
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| What is a traditional approach to the study of Comparative Politics? |
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| Detailed, exhaustive study of several countries around the world (advanced democracies, post-communist, developing) |
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| What is an alternative approach to study Comparative Politics? |
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• Different Approach
Major concepts, ideas, arguments, and questions in the field
o The struggle between freedom and equality
o Institutional Approach
o States
o Modernity, Modernization, Post-modernization
o Nations and Society
o Political Culture
o Revolution and Protest
o Political and Market Institutions
o Authoritarianism
o Democracy and Democratization
o Advanced Democracies
o Communism and Post-communism
o Less-developed and Newly Industrializing Countries
o Political Performance
o Globalization |
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| Traditional Approach in Comparative Politics |
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| Comparing real Greek City States |
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| statecraft, government, military strategy |
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| Life,Liberty, and Property |
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| Federalist Papers, representative republic |
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| Historical generalizations, Social Change |
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| economic development, capitalism, revolution |
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| bureaucracy, authority, culture |
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| Modern State, division of labor, individualism and freedom |
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| Traditional Approach in Comparative Politics |
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| Emphasis on describing political systems |
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| emphasis on causality, explanation and prediction |
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| rejection of a grand theory of politics, diversity of methods and approaches |
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| ability of an individual to act independently without fear of restriction or punishment by state or other actors |
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| shared economic, social, political standard of individuals within a community, society, or country |
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-a set of rules, norms, and roles
-“the formal rules and procedures, and standard operating practices that structure the relationship between individuals in various units of polity and economy” |
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-Legitimate monopoly on force
• control over a well-defined, continuous territory, and population;
• relatively centralized;
• differentiated from other organizations; and
• reinforces its claims to a monopoly over concentrated means of physical coercion within its territory |
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| ability of A make B do smth that B would not otherwise do |
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| ability to make decisions without external influence |
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| fundamental rules and norms of politics |
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| leadership or elite in charge of running the state |
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• family and family relations
• agriculture, rural style of living
• little knowledge of science and technology
• personal loyalty, reverence, ascriptive authority
• subsistence economies |
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• industrial economies
• complex and impersonal social structures
• value of science, technology, progress
• highly bureaucratized political system
• rational choices and mass society
• urbanization, secularization
• achievement-based authority
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| able to fulfill basic tasks |
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| cannot effectively enforce the laws, manage economy, etc |
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| able to carry out basic tasks |
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| ability to wield its power independently of public |
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| Weberian thoughts on Mondernization |
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| culture shapes economics and politics |
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