Topic: Comparative Politics
Extractive capitalism (150 words)
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The modernization thesis asserts that affluence breeds stable democracy. How do you explain the success of India being the world’s largest democracy as an exceptional case?
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Criticism of the institutional approach in comparative political analysis has come up in successive waves. Comment. (150 words)
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Analyze the contribution of liberal democratic principles in the democratization of Indian polity. (150 words)
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What are the crucial functions of empirical political theory in Comparative Politics?
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 EPT = abstract facts → generalisations + hypotheses → tested against evidence → gives CP its scientific characterRoute 2 Popper: deductive…
Discuss the interpretive approach to the study of comparative politics.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 approach recovers meanings actors attach to actions → culture/ideas/interpretation over empirical–structural factorsRoute 2 politics read through meaning, not measurement → positivist…
Discuss the psychological approach to the study of comparative politics.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 inner human dimension (motivation, belief, perception, personality) over institutions → challenges rational-actor modelRoute 2 politics as human behaviour → emotion +…
Discuss the political socialization of open and closed societies.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 define via Easton & Dennis → acquiring political orientations → character set by the system it servesRoute 2 socialization as a…
Discuss the political economy approach to the comparative analysis of politics.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 polity and economy shape each other → Marx: interdisciplinary study (economics, law, politics)Route 2 Oxford Handbook definition — state’s economic policies…
Discuss the main limitations of the comparative method to the study of Political Science.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 comparison is the sub-discipline’s defining method (Lijphart: method, not substance) → but the method itself is limitedRoute 2 comparison stands in…
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