Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
2. Approaches in comparative politics
View through CrossRef
This chapter examines five main approaches in comparative politics that represent important contributions: old and new institutional analysis, interest approach, ideas approach, individual approach, and the influence of the international environment. The role of ‘interaction’ is also explored. After explaining the use of theory in comparative political analysis, the chapter considers structural functionalism, systems theory, Marxism, corporatism, institutionalism, governance, and comparative political economy. It also discusses behavioural and rational choice approaches, how political culture helps to understand political behaviour in different countries, self-interest in politics, and the implications of globalization for comparative politics. The chapter concludes by assessing the importance of looking at political processes and of defining what the ‘dependent variables’ are.
Title: 2. Approaches in comparative politics
Description:
This chapter examines five main approaches in comparative politics that represent important contributions: old and new institutional analysis, interest approach, ideas approach, individual approach, and the influence of the international environment.
The role of ‘interaction’ is also explored.
After explaining the use of theory in comparative political analysis, the chapter considers structural functionalism, systems theory, Marxism, corporatism, institutionalism, governance, and comparative political economy.
It also discusses behavioural and rational choice approaches, how political culture helps to understand political behaviour in different countries, self-interest in politics, and the implications of globalization for comparative politics.
The chapter concludes by assessing the importance of looking at political processes and of defining what the ‘dependent variables’ are.
Related Results
Introduction to comparative politics
Introduction to comparative politics
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative politics. Comparative politics is an empirical science that deals primarily with domestic politics. It is one of the ...
A Framework for a Comparative Politics of France
A Framework for a Comparative Politics of France
The larger comparative theory-building and stocktaking goals and questions, and the plan of the book, are presented in this chapter. The major dynamics and developments of French p...
Captured Futures
Captured Futures
Abstract
Environmental politics as we know it cannot deliver. Despite all efforts politics is unable to bend the ecological trends. This book argues this is because ...
6 Case Selection and Research Design in Comparative Constitutional Studies
6 Case Selection and Research Design in Comparative Constitutional Studies
Comparative constitutional law’s methodological matrix is fuzzy and amorphous. A close look at social science methods suggests a toolkit of considerations to be addressed in conduc...
Toward a Comparative Politics of France
Toward a Comparative Politics of France
This chapter returns to the questions that were introduced in the Handbook’s Introduction. The first section identifies four distinct periods in the study of French politics, revis...
Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics provides an introduction to the field. It includes three chapters dedicated to familiarizing readers with the comparative approach. It then guides readers thro...
4 From Comparative Constitutional Law to Comparative Constitutional Studies
4 From Comparative Constitutional Law to Comparative Constitutional Studies
The chapter argues for an interdisciplinary approach to comparative constitutional inquiry that is methodologically and substantively preferable to doctrinal accounts. It suggests ...
When Politics are Sacralized
When Politics are Sacralized
Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized i...