PSC 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hosni Mubarak, Civic Nationalism, Comparative Politics
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Comparative politics: systematic search for answers to political questions about how people around the world make and contest authoritative public choices. Significance: allows us to analyze how countries are similar and how they differ, the patterns between countries. Example: democracy in america by alexis de tocqueville, he studied american democracy by comparing it to french democracy. Method of agreement: seeking the one attribute the cases share in common to attribute causality and find the cause of the outcome. (agreed outcome, different qualities) Example: if four countries are very different but all experience civil conflict, we use method of agreement to find the one thing in common all the countries have that may explain their similar outcome. A comparatist may find that all the countries are ethnically divided. Correlation: a measure of observed association between two variables a change in value x is accompanies by change in value y.
