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Historical and comparative approaches to race and ethnicity teach us a wide range of issues and approaches to social problem that our own Racialization often depends on binary antagonism as the prevailing discourse of race and racism. For example, the African-American enslavement of black people by white Europeans is a black-white binary antagonism. However, I will argue that race does not.
I will clarify the calculus and cultural approaches to understand how they bring concepts of the two previously mentioned into the historical study. On the last part I will explain why is the analysis of change superior under the branch of Historical Institutionalism than both Sociological and Rational Choice Institutionalisms by pointing out how scholars on the first one have surpassed the.
The Importance of Studying Comparative Politics Comparative politics is an important aspect of political science in that instead of studying how this country functions, it studies why other countries around the world are the way they are. There must be some medium for finding the differences and similarities between one county and another in order discover what can effect such aspects as.
Comparative history is the technical term for identifying historical patterns. The question it poses is what motivates people to compare historical patterns, like the life of JFK to Abraham Lincoln, or Othello (who is most likely fictional) to O.J. Simpson. The three different types of comparative history are Macro-causal analysis, parallel demonstration of theory and contrast of contexts.
The MSc Comparative Politics looks for sophisticated analytical answers to basic political questions: Why are some countries democratic while others are not? Why are some countries torn by ethnic conflict? Do constitutions matter? The programme is methodologically eclectic yet rigorous, with an emphasis on historical approaches. It offers courses in the fields of democracy and democratisation.
Historians commonly approach the study of historical writing in two quite distinct ways: either by study of the techniques which we hold to be immediately relevant today, or by looking at the “history of history”, as for example by focussing on classic texts in Western historical writing. This paper takes the second road. Its principal agenda are as follows.
Comparative Politics, typically defined as the study of the internal politics of nations other than our own, is a diverse and complex field. There is no one central tendency or approach which dominates this area of inquiry within political science: various theories, concepts, issues and met.