GOVT-040 Lecture Notes - Comparative Politics, Parliamentary System, Voluntaryism
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It is not only a subject of study but also a method of study. As a field of study it aims to understand how the world works, and focuses on how countries work. Comparative politics is comparing regimes, societies, institutions, etc of countries to each other. It"s concerned about what happened inside those countries, international. Relations on the other hand is concerned about the relationship between those countries and how those countries interact with each other. What explains revolutions in france, china, russia. What is the difference between presidentialism in the usa and parliamentarism in the uk. State is a set of permanent administrative, legal or coercive systems with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory. Includes army, police, post office and government bureaucracy. Police or army are the only entities that are legitimately believed to have force.