POLI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Federal Republic, Comparative Politics, Identity Politics
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Contemporary india is a perfect case study for comparative politics. Can learn much from it, because when we talk in comparative politics about dilemmas or challenges about civil order or democratic government that any society can have, Negative reason for studying india comparatively, is that it destroys generalizations about comparative politics. Has been democratic from the beginning since independence from britain in 1947. Ca(cid:374)ada does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a highe(cid:396) fede(cid:396)al leade(cid:396) (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual states that makes the states participants in national government, rather than operating on another level. Asian tiger: asian tigers: economies that became market economies comparatively early in. 3: india has a history of free and fair elections and many overturns it has been dominated by the congress party congress part has been hegemonic of its control on political affairs. One problem of all the indian government (economy) is corruption.