An Introduction to Comparative Politics

The Simple Story of the Course in a Flow Chart

 


The Modern Nation-State

People voluntarily subsume their particularistic loyalties to a larger symbolic community

 

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The Foundation is Modernity

People reformulate their identities

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Organization Chart

 

 

. . . And the Rest

The Rage of Traditional Society

 

 


What happens when modern and traditional worlds collide?

Weak or Non-existent Nation-States

 

Are we the End of History?

 

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