I. Discuss the importance of doing comparative politics.II. What is comparative politics?III. What are the schools of thought in comparative politics?Reference: photo belowIV. Discuss briefly the schools of thought in comparative politics.Reference: photo belowV. Choose two States/countries and make a short and quick comparative discussion following the schools of thought of comparative politics Schools of AnalysisThree of the most prominent schools in comparative politics in the past 50 years havebeen political economy, modernization theory, and dependency theory. They are chosen hereonly to give you an idea of the sharply different perspectives that exist in comparative politics.The political economy approach emphasizes, as its name suggests, the nexus between economyand politics. A classic case is Robert Bates's States and Markets in Tropical Africa: The PoliticalBasis of Agricultural Policy (University of California Press, 1981), in which the author examineshow state economic policy in Africa, especially in agriculture, undermines development, andwhy policy continues in light of failure. Political economy, in turn, is composed of subschools,among them rational choice theory, which attempts to use (neoclassical) economic reasoning toexplain collective decisions.Like political economy, modernization theory focuses on domestic forces, but its concern is moreabout how certain cultural aspects that retard development may be overcome. Modernizationtheory generally divides society between a "modern" sector and a "backward" sector. Thechallenge of development is how to overcome the latter. In addition, modernization theory tendsto emphasize culture rather than the political economy, which it sees as a dependent variable tobe acted upon. Still, the units of analysis in both schools are nation-states, and their levels ofanalysis, although different, are internal to the units.¹The same cannot be said of dependency theory, for which the global system, not nation-states, isthe focus of analysis. In dependency theory, poverty is due to neither so-called backward culturenor deleterious state actions in the political economy but rather the global system itself: arelatively small number of "core" countries specialize in high-value-added manufactured goods,while a large number of "peripheral" countries specialize in primary commodity production.Thus poverty in dependency theory stems from the position countries occupy in the internationaldivision of labor or system.

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I. Discuss the importance of doing comparative politics. II. What is comparative politics? III. What are the schools of thought in comparative politics? Reference: photo below IV. Discuss briefly the schools of thought in comparative politics. Reference: photo below V. Choose two States/countries and make a short and quick comparative discussion following the schools of thought of comparative politics