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Comparative Politics

Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain

Dates: 8/30/21 - 12/23/21

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Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: International Relations
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 16614
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 100
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42

DESCRIPTION

1. Introduction
- What is comparative politics?
- The substance of comparative politics
- The method of comparative politics
- Evolution of comparative politics

2.Economic development and political regimes
- Introduction
- The Problem
- The seminal study of Lipset: criticisms and new approaches
- Quantitative and qualitative comparisons
- Final remarks

3. Democratization
- Democracies and non-democracies
- Transitions to democracy
- Democratic Consolidation?
- The conditions for democracy
- Revisiting theories of democratization

4. Institutional design and democratic performance
- Introduction
- Debates on institutional design: government systems, party systems and electoral systems
- The quality of democracy

5. Comparative Welfare state
- Introduction
- Types of welfare regimes
- Transformations, crisis and reforms
- Challenges

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