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1. Comment18 October 2020 at 18:10:30
Looking though the lens of ones
own context
2. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:12:53
According to Peace of Westphalia
and Montevideo Convention
3. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:12:47
Internal and external
4. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:14:21
Lecture 1 - Introduction
More uniformity
5. Comment Part 1 - Introduction
18 October 2020 at 18:14:37
Comparative politics: research method in political science
E.g. police force
• Combines substance and methods (depth and breadth)
6. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:14:51
Extraction of societal resources Comparison:
7. Comment • Benefits:
18 October 2020 at 18:15:03
Creation of institutions • Contextualization
• Typology
8. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:19:01 • Generate/test theories
Distinct from citizenship (legal
• Hazards:
term)
• Requires a lot of context
9. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:22:01 • Different meanings in different contexts
Socially constructed 1 • Ethnocentrism
Based on ethnicity, language, • Selection bias
religion, ideology, etc
• Stereotypes
Part 2 - States and Nations
State: formal political organization (main unit)
• Country: state + nation
• Government: set of people that manage state
2 3 • Features: territory, population, sovereignty
• Emergence:
• War theory
• French Revolution
4 7 • Centralization → standardization → national force → mobilization → differentiation →
welfare state
8 9 Nation: imagined community with territorial claim
• Nationalism: seek self-determination
,10. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:17:20
Often rooted in ethnicity
11. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:18:09
E.g. in multiethnic Yugoslavia,
politicians pushed for ethnic
homogenization
12. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:20:24
Revolutionists inherited the state
and tried to create a nation out of
different groups
10 • Push to homogenize
13. Comment
• Ethnicity: common descent (socially constructed)
18 October 2020 at 18:21:22
E.g. many former colonies in 11 • Often used for mobilization/legitimation
global south
14. Comment Which came first: nation or state?
18 October 2020 at 18:28:16
Positive connotations • Nazi Germany: Arian nation
Only countries that do not self- 12 • France: state
identity are Vatican City and 13 • Nation-building: state → nation-state
Saudi Arabia
15. Comment Part 3 - Regimes
18 October 2020 at 18:27:54
E.g. Switzerland Aristotle’s Typology of Regimes
Not feasible on large scale Public Interest Private Interests
Rule by one Monarchy Tyranny
16. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:27:35 Rule by few Aristocracy Oligarchy
Schumpeter: democratic elitism
Rule by many/all Polity Democracy
17. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:27:07
Protects majority Contemporary typology:
18. Comment 14 • Democratic regimes: rule by people, political equality
18 October 2020 at 18:26:48
15 16 • Direct vs representative
Protects minority (from tyranny of
the majority) 17 18 • Majoritarian vs liberal
19. Comment 19 • Authoritarian regimes: no competition for power
18 October 2020 at 18:30:38
20 • Military junta
Negative connotations
21 • Dictatorship
Proliferating
22 • Absolute monarchy
20. Comment 23 • One-party state
18 October 2020 at 18:29:20
E.g. Egypt, Thailand 24 • Theocracy
25 26 • Hybrid/illiberal regimes: unstable gray zone
21. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:29:26 27 28 • Totalitarian regimes: mass mobilization (ideological socialization), omnipresence
E.g. Cameroon, Russia,
Venezuela
Democracy index: Freedom House
22. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:29:37
E.g. Oman, Saudi Arabia,
Swaziland
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18 October 2020 at 18:29:46
E.g. China, Cuba, Vietnam
24. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:29:58
E.g. Iran, Vietnam
25. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:31:26
Most emerged in 3rd wave of
, democratization
Some progressing, some
regressing
26. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:31:47
Political turmoil
27. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:32:25
Now very rare (only North Korea)
E.g. Italy (Mussolini), Nazi
Germany (Hitler), Soviet Union
(Stalin), China (Mao)
28. Comment
18 October 2020 at 18:33:17
Very little privacy, system of terror
(secret police)
Powerful leader image
, Readings:
• Cases in Comparative Politics (O’Neil, 2018), chapter 1
• Calhoun, C. (1993). Nationalism and Ethnicity. Annual Review of Sociology, 19, pp.
211-239
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