What is comparative politics?
Almost 10 years ago, when the World Wide Web was a new thing, Dr. Iren Omo-Bare of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, put the notes to his introductory lecture, "What is Comparative Politics?" on the college web site.Dr. Omo-Bare has probably revised his presentation, but the old notes are still there (things can live forever on the web). Maybe the outline will give you ideas you can use if you're beginning a new semester and a new comparative politics and government course.
Here is a link to the outline and the main topic headings:
What is Comparative Politics?
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS DEFINED
- WHY STUDY COMPARATIVE POLITICS?
- HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN AMERICAN POLITICS: HISTORY AND APPROACHES: The approach was INSTITUTIONAL
- THE BEHAVIORAL APPROACH
- THE FUNCTIONAL APPROACH: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT BECAME THE MOST POPULAR AREA IN THE 1960s
- THE METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Dr. Omo-Bare's home page
A more recent set of introductory notes (in the form of downloadable Power Point slides from the early classes) from Dr. Timothy C. Lim's "Foundations of Comparative Politics" course at California State University, Los Angeles, January 2007.
These lecture notes are correlated with Dr. Lim's book, Doing Comparative Politics. You can download the book's introduction at the publisher's web site.
Dr. Lim's home page
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