COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SYSTEM
Comparative politics is the study of the forms of political organization, their properties, correlations, variations, and modes
of change. The students of comparative politics is, therefore, primarily concerned with the study of political organizations or
the political system as a whole, in order to identify similarities and differences that characterize them. The study of comparative
politics involves political activity, political process and political power.
Comparative politics was earlier known as comparative constitution and comparative government. It was the task of the political scientists to transform comparative government into comparative politics or comparative political system in the post
World War II period. This is in turn involved two fundamental changes. First, the study was to be undertaken comparatively.
Second, the study was to be of the political system, not merely of government. In other words, comparative political system studies
everything that falls under the purview of a given political system related to politics.
Comparative politics is concerned with politics i.e. power relationship wherever they occur. It extends to non-governmental
institutions and covers political party, pressure groups etc. On the other hand, the term comparative political system refers to
technique, an approach, a method of studying political activities. Therefore, a group of writers prefer to call it comparative political system to comparative politics.
Though there is no difference between the two nomenclatures, yet, it would be justiceable to call it comparative politics since our primary concern is to study the political activity, political process and political power. The system approach is applied to help us to study the political activity, political process and political power systematically and scientifically. Our concern is not to study the system but politics. Therefore, in the study of comparative politics we should not put much emphasis on the system. It is accepted to help us in conducting scientific study of comparative politics.
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