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What are the difficulties faced by a political theorist in comparing the States?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • State in Comparative Perspective

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Comparison is political science's substitute for the laboratory: since states cannot be experimented upon, the theorist must find variation that history produced. Arend Lijphart (Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method, 1971) captured the core difficulty as many variables, small N: too many possible causes and too few comparable states to decide between them. The difficulties…

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