Instructors: Dr. Nils Steiner
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Seminar AVPS
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 25
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This is an introductory course to "Comparative Politics" covering research questions, theories, and methods of comparative politics as well as empirical studies in the field. This includes, inter alia, typologies of political systems, (sub)types of democratic regimes, issues of political culture as well as research on democratization and democracy. Moreover, the course gives an introduction into the logic of theory-guided empirical research in comparative politics.
Recommended reading list:
Almond, Gabriel A./Powell, G. Bingham, Jr./Strom, Kaare/Dalton, Russell J., 2010: Comparative Politics Today. A World View, 9. ed., New York: Longman.
Caramani, Daniel (Hrsg.), 2011: Comparative Politics, 2. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Landman, Todd, 2009: Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics. An Introduction, 3. ed., London: Routledge.
Lauth, Hans-Joachim (Hrsg.), 2010: Vergleichende Regierungslehre. Eine Einführung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (3., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage).
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