Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Chapter : Poli Sci 2245 - Comparative Poli textbook notes.pdf

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

Document Summary

Comparative politics: the study and comparison of domestic politics across countries. Institutions: organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake. Politics: struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group. It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between power and politics. Power: ability to influence or impose one s will on others. The comparative method: a way to make comparisons across cases, and draw conclusions. By comparing countries or subsets between them to come to conclusions and make generalizations that could be valid in other case. Inductive reasoning: means of going from studying one case to creating a hypothesis. Deductive reasoning: starting with a puzzle and from there generating some hypothesis about cause and effect which will then be tests against a number of cases. Many variables that can throw off the results in either case.