PSIR212 COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Course Content
This course is designed to introduce students to the range and scope of comparative analysis and the various ways and means in which comparative research is conducted. We shall investigate, for example, the nature of the state; how if at all its powers are separated; the nature of social and economic power and its impact on state decision-making; the relationship between capitalism and the state; non-capitalist economic alternatives, the effects of tradition and political culture, and so on. Students are expected to gain crucial investigative skills and insights to undertake meaningful case study analysis in the follow-up course PSIR 211 Comparative Government.
