CHAPTER 3
Approaches to the Study of Comparative Politics
Skylab Sahu
Reader’s Guide
An approach provides a particular direction or an angle to study politics in a comparative setting. This chapter analyses different approaches used to understand comparative politics and the importance of diverse approaches to study comparative politics. Two types of approaches, that is, traditional and modern, are used to study comparative politics. Philosophical, historical and legal approaches are some traditional approaches which remained predominant in the field of enquiry till the Second World War. New approaches such as system, structural–functional, behavioural, political–cultural and the new institutional approach became popular after the end of ...
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