Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture : Poli Sci 2245 - Intro to Comparative Poli lecture notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

Document Summary

What to study and how to study in comparative politics: research in poli sci needs a question. You need to find a framework. Everything is based of off theory. When the crime scene investigators arrive they have theories. They can"t just start looking for a suspect unless they have a theory. If you have a murder in london, on you can"t fly to sydney, aus and start interviewing random people. It would be just chance if you came onto an answer. Question theory subject. Narrow historical uniqueness. Scale for broadening and narrowing out scope of topic: contention (tilly/tarrow, revolutions, social revolutions (i. e. skocpol) Revolution according to skocpol is a social transformation, must involve some change in the structure of social domination in society. Experimental unit homogeneity (the similarity of the characteristics of the group in aspects that matter) All research comes from a theoretical backdrop.