Comparative Politics

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Any or all the said sub-disciplines may be integrated into a comparative framework. When political analyst look at the political parties or socialization processes of two or more societies, they are able to clarify their generalizations about a particular political system because its characteristics are highlighted by comparison with those of other political systems.

Comparative political analysis is also help to us in understanding and also identifying those characteristics which may be universal to the political process, regardless of time or place.

In fact, it may be argued that no hypothesis or theory of politics deserves credibility unless it has been tested in several different societies - cross culturally. And while the traditional approach to comparative politics tended to describe only the institutional details of several foreign states, more recent trends have been in terms of specific system characteristics compared cross culturally.

It is possible to learn more about executive domination, for instance, by looking at executive and legislative relationships not only in the United States but also in United Kingdom, France and other countries that represent different stages of socioeconomic development and different types of political culture.

From the perspective of comparative politics, new fields of research also have been developed, including comparative studies of political elites, political violence, and political corruption. Political socialization, political culture and the more traditional areas of study, including political parties and interest groups have been substantially strengthened by their inclusion within comparative framework of analysis.

Political analysts or scientist can also assist to compensate for the relative lack of scientific precision in their scholarly efforts by broadening their interests beyond the narrow confines of their own social and political setting. Comparison is so important precisely because we have no absolute standards of measurement.

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