The course has three goals: (1) to introduce students to the major questions in comparative politics, (2) to acquaint them with the field’s best answers to those questions, and (3) to give them the tools to think critically about the answers. Using the latest research in the field of comparative politics, the course examine competing answers to substantively important questions and evaluate the proposed arguments for their logical consistency and empirical accuracy..
W.R. Clark, M. Golder, S.N. Golder, Principi di Scienza Politica, MacGraw-Hill, Milano 2011, capp.1.2,3,4, 5, 9,10,14,15.