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GIANFRANCO PASQUINO:
The course is devoted
to the study of comparative politics.
We wanted to utilize
a comparative method
to analyze political systems as
a whole, to analyze situations,
to analyze political behavior,
and to analyze all the
important political [? factors. ?]
Comparative politics is
a necessary discipline because
it will provide knowledge
of not just of some
specific political systems,
but it will [INAUDIBLE] knowledge on all
political systems, the way they work,
the way they change, the way
they transform themselves,
the way they declined, because there are
some cases in which political systems
simply decay.
We want to do that by looking
into the details of the workings
of those political
systems, first of all,
defining what is a
political system, analyzing
all the components of
the political system,
explaining how they stay
together as they interact,
how they produce change in each other.
This can be done by looking at
some specific political systems
and in the knowledge that unless one
knows more than one political system,
one will never be able
to explain the workings
of any specific, single
political system.
So if we want to know the political
system, let's say, of country A,
we must know how other
political systems work
because this will illuminate the
working of a single political system.
And together, they will
provide a major interpretation,
a more comprehensive
interpretation of the workings
of the various political systems.
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