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POLS103 Introduction to Comparative Politics

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 36 hours of lectures and tutorials.

This unit provides a basic introduction to the field of comparative politics. It considers how political institutions and patterns of political behaviour vary between nations and across time periods. The unit examines various types of political systems, their formal structures and their social and cultural dimensions. A key aspect of the unit is to investigate how different polities confront similar challenges, especially in the global era.

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