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Dr. Anjeet Kumar Choudhary S/O Late Amar Nath Choudhary Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, R B jallan college, Bela Darbhanga, L N Mithila University.

About The Book

Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relating to political institutions, political behavior, conflict, and the causes and consequences of economic development. When applied to specific fields of study, comparative politics may be referred to by other names, such as comparative government (the comparative study of forms of government). Comparative politics is the systematic study and comparison of the diverse political systems in the world. It is comparative in searching to explain why different political systems have similarities or differences and how developmental changes came to be between them. It is systematic in that it looks for trends, patterns, and regularities among these political systems. The research field takes into account political systems throughout the globe, focusing on themes such as democratization, globalization, and integration. New theories and approaches have been used in political science in the last 40 years thanks to comparative politics. Some of these focus on political culture, dependency theory, developmentalism, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, comparative political economy, state-society relations, and new institutionalism. Some examples of comparative politics are studying the differences between presidential and parliamentary systems, democracies and dictatorships, parliamentary systems in different countries, multi-party systems such as Canada and two-party systems such as the United States. Comparative politics must be conducted at a specific point in time, usually the present. A researcher cannot compare systems from different periods of time; it must be static.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Comparative Politics: An Overview
Chapter 2 Approaches to the study of Comparative Politics
Chapter 3 Types of Government
Chapter 4 Political Representation
Chapter 5 Political Party and Pressure Groups
Chapter 6 Judicial system in India
Chapter 7 International Organization
Chapter 8 Political Process
Chapter 9 Nationalism and Various Forms
Chapter 10 Globalization
Bibliography
Index