Deck 15: The World Is Messed up Discuss

Question 1

Conduct your own SWOT analysis and reach your own assessment of the likely future of comparative politics.

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Question 2

Hauss begins Chapter 15 with the story of a question a student once asked him to include in a final examination. "The world is messed up. Discuss." Does that statement make sense to you given what you have learned so far? Why (not)?

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Question 3

Some analysts doubt whether comparative politics has a paradigm or not. What do you think? Why did you reach this conclusion?

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Question 4

Can political systems evolve in the same ways that natural ones do? Why do you reach this conclusion?

Question 5

Why are political paradigms so hard to shift?