Samenvatting Comparative politics politicologie Universiteit Leiden Blok 3, jaar 1
Summary Comparative Politics
University Leiden
Year 1, Block 3, Politicologie
Lecture 1: What is comparative politics
Objectives:
Define comparative politics
The role of comparison
Recognise different theoretical approaches
Comparative Politics
addresses how factors influence others, what drives behavior including multi level politics.
There is a scientific reason to compare: does X influence Y? is there causality or correlation?
Statistical control: mathematically estimate the effects when changing one variable
Comparative controle: Select cases in such a way that we can eliminate alternative explanation
Qualitative Methods: Small cases but a lot of information
Quantitative methods: Statistical solvability by mathematical comparisons using graphs
Single case studies according to leiphart:
A-theoretical
Interpretative
Hypothesis building
theory infirming
Deviant case study
Comparative in this case means comparing your study to all other cases which accort to a specific theory
Comparative research consists of:
most similar system
selecting cases which are as similar as possible but contain different outcomes
look for the differences which determine the different outcomes
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