{"id":1400,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-subject-matter-of-comparative-politics-outline-the-upsc-psir-2020-2705\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:26","slug":"discuss-the-subject-matter-of-comparative-politics-outline-the-upsc-psir-2020-2705","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-subject-matter-of-comparative-politics-outline-the-upsc-psir-2020-2705\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the subject matter of comparative politics. Outline the limitations of comparative political analysis."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">re CP defined by method, not substance (Lijphart) \u2192 subject matter is fluid, widening as the discipline grows rz comparison as the analytical core \u2192 what it compares expands from institutions to the whole political process<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">traditional subject matter: formal institutions\/constitutions\/forms of government, mostly Western \u2192 modern shift to political processes + behaviour \u2192 systems &amp; functional analysis \u2192 political culture, civic attitudes (Almond &amp; Verba) \u2192 political economy (economics-politics) \u2192 political sociology (state<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">society) \u2192 class structures + modes of production + developing world<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">ounter-view | Macridis: parochial\/ethnocentric\/static \u2192 modern approaches: jargon + abstraction; Marxists: status-quoist + Western-centric \u2192 selection bias\/many variables\/scarce data weaken objectivity \u2192 Chandhoke: loss of certainties strains a grand-theory field \u2192 over-comparison erases the uniqueness of states usion routes er! limitations real but not disabling \u2192 CP still widens political science beyond the West, aids theory-building ez the same breadth that limits also enriches \u2192 value lies in comparison handled with care, against conceptual stretching<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[41],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[68],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1400","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-41","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-comparative-politics","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1400\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}