- Enseignant-e: Mariana Alvarado Chavez
- Enseignant-e: Ari Arundhati Ray
Why are some states democratic and others not? How do institutions differ across democracies, and what difference does it make by which rules a parliament is elected? How do political parties organize societal conflicts? These and many more questions are at the core of the introductory class of comparative politics.
The lecture introduces students to the field of comparative politics, which analyses the politics of individual countries from a comparative perspective. We start with a broad view on different types of regimes and regime change and then move our focus to institutions, actors, and finally to outcomes.
The accompanying tutorial deepens the students' knowledge about the content of the lecture, provides additional material to better understand how research in comparative politics works (e.g. measurement of concepts, application of comparative methods) and gives students the opportunity to apply the learned concepts and theories in group exercises and case studies.