Concept information
Preferred term
comparative politics
Definition
- Comparative politics is a subdiscipline of political science. The goal of political science is to promote the comparison of different political entities, and comparative politics is the study of domestic politics within states. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Comparative Politics]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anarchism
- breakdown of political systems
- cabinet (government)
- central banks
- comparative federalism
- comparative human rights
- comparative institutionalism
- comparative law and justice
- comparative party systems
- comparative political economy
- comparative regional integration
- comparative social movements
- constitutional engineering
- constitutional systems
- convergence theory
- corporativism
- decentralization
- decolonization
- discursive institutionalism
- economic systems
- electoral systems
- environmental issues in politics
- executive (government)
- fall of communism
- government
- historical sociology
- hybrid regimes
- institutional change
- institutionalization
- institutions and institutionalism
- interest groups
- international political science
- irredentism
- labor movement
- leadership (political)
- legitimacy (politics)
- military rule
- mission civilisatrice
- monarchy
- neo-patrimonialism
- neo-Weberian state
- oligarchy
- path dependence
- personalization of politics
- pillarization
- political censorship
- political charisma
- political collaboration
- political competition
- political conditionality
- political elites
- political reform
- political representation
- political revolution
- political stability
- politics of language
- postcommunism
- presidentialism
- prospect theory
- qualitative comparative analysis
- referenda
- regionalism
- regionalization
- reparations
- republicanism
- republic (government)
- responsibility (politics)
- responsiveness (politics)
- secession
- semipresidentialism
- separation of powers
- socialist systems
- terrorist groups
- totalitarian regimes
- transitional justice
- transitional regimes
- transitology
- types of democracy
- types of political system
- virtual state
- welfare policies
- welfare state
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QPT26G4R-R
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