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COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION INFORMAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION Definiton: POLITICS Aristotle – 384 BC – 322 BC WHAT MAKES A DECISION AUTHORITAT...

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION INFORMAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINITION Definiton: POLITICS Aristotle – 384 BC – 322 BC WHAT MAKES A DECISION AUTHORITATIVE? Definition 2: POWER Max Weber 1864-1920 COMPARATIVE POLITICS: what do we study? Political Theory (philosophy) Comparative Politics International relations Value-laden A-normative A-normative What is good? What is bad? What makes two institutions similar/different? How does the relation between states is structured? Provide normative conception of reality Describing and making inferences about the political world Describing and (sometimes) making inferences about the political world Gramsci, Habermas, Schmitt Sartori, Mair, Lijphart Gilpin, Waltz, Mershaimer COMPARATIVE POLITICS: WHAT FOR? Describe cases: classification/typologies of institutions and actors COMPARATIVE POLITICS: WHAT FOR? Explain: formulate hypothesis, test them and make some statements about them Why in some countries radical-right parties are successful and in other they are not? Why in some countries the turnout is higher and in other countries is lower? Why in some countries the welfare state is more generous than in others? Why some authoritarian regimes turn into democracy and other do not? Roberto Michels 1876-1936 COMPARATIVE POLITICS: WHAT FOR? IRON LAW of OLIGARCHY Every organization, eventually, ends up in an oligarchy. DURVERGER LAWS: The simple-majority singleballot system favours the two-party system. Both the simple-majority system with second ballot and proportional representation favour multipartism. Maurice Duverger 1917-2014 COMPRATIVE POLITICS, LIKE HARD SCIENCE SURVEY – EXPERIMENTAL EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY BEFORE THE BEHAVIOURAL REVOLUTION “The first separate school of political science was established in 1872 in France as the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now the Institut d’Études Politiques).” britannica.com WALTER LIPMANN (1899-1974) “The newspapers are regarded by democrats as a panacea for their own defects, whereas analysis of the nature of news and of the economic basis of journalism seems to show that the newspapers necessarily and inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion” (Public Opinion) THE BEHAVIOURAL REVOLUTION BEFORE AND AFTER THE BEHAVIOURAL REVOLUTION What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INSTITUTION What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INSTITUTION What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INSTITUTION What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERESTS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERESTS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERESTS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? IDEAS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? IDEAS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? IDEAS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? IDEAS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INDIVIDUALS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INDIVIDUALS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INDIVIDUALS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INDIVIDUALS What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT What are the theoretical approaches of comparative politics? INTERACTION