CHAPTER 2
Challenges to Comparative Government and Politics
Anusha and Shefali Manhas
Reader’s Guide
The present chapter is an attempt to address the challenges posed to the discipline of comparative politics since its inception, that is, from the Aristotelian period to the contemporary globalized times. We will study how comparative politics has evolved itself as an independent and robust area of inquiry. The evolution of the field has not been a smooth one, and there have been different kinds of obstacles coming from various quarters such as the behaviouralists, dependency theorists, postcolonialism, postmodernism, eurocentrism and globalization. Nevertheless, it can be observed from the discussions of this chapter that even though comparative ...
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