{"id":1402,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-main-limitations-of-the-comparative-method-to-the-upsc-psir-2022-2707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:26","slug":"discuss-the-main-limitations-of-the-comparative-method-to-the-upsc-psir-2022-2707","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-main-limitations-of-the-comparative-method-to-the-upsc-psir-2022-2707\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the main limitations of the comparative method to the study of Political Science."},"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\">kr! comparison is the sub-discipline\u2019s defining method (Lijphart: method, not substance) \u2192 but the method itself is limited e2 comparison stands in for the laboratory control social science lacks (Sartori) \u2192 yet that scientific promise is only partly met<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">subject resists science (behaviour not purely rational \u2192 no uniform scientific method \u2192 individuals &amp; institutions follow no fixed rules \u2192 scarce data on systems and non-state actors) \u2192 comparison distorts (generalisation from few cases \u2192 systems too different or too alike resist it: India vs Bahrain \u2192 concepts travel badly, Sartori\u2019s conceptual stretching) \u2192 bias intrudes (cases picked to fit a prior view \u2192 Macridis: non-comparative, descriptive, parochial, Eurocentric \u2192 Marxist charge: systems approach status-quoist, Western as ideal)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">ounter-view | flaws temper the method, not discredit it \u2192 careful operationalisation + Landman\u2019s moderate universalism keep comparison workable<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">ysion routes kr) read comparative findings as provisional generalisations, not scientific laws R2 despite its limits, comparison still widens political science beyond the West<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[68],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1402","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","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\/1402","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\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1402\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}