PSIR Optional · Paper II · Section A: Comparative Politics and International Relations
Comparative Politics Notes · PYQs · Solved Answers
Free notes, every previous year question and the solved answers for Comparative Politics (Paper II, Section A: Comparative Politics and International Relations), arranged so you can read a topic and immediately see how UPSC has asked it. Syllabus: Nature and major approaches; political economy and political sociology perspectives; limitations of the comparative method.
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Paper II · Unit 01
Comparative Politics notes
Topic-wise notes for this unit in syllabus order. Read a topic, then open its previous year questions below.
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Comparative Politics
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Comparative Politics: Nature, Scope and Evolution
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Interpretive, Psychological and New Institutional Approaches
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Political Development, Modernisation and Political Culture
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Political Economy Approach to Comparative Politics
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Political Sociology Approach to Comparative Politics
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Systems and Structural-Functional Approaches in Comparative Politics
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The Comparative Method and its Limitations
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