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comparative government

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noun

  1. the study and comparison of different forms of government.


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He was already reading the Economist when Sue Ikenberry came to know him as a Georgetown Day School junior enrolled in her class on comparative government and politics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2014

Linz, you see, was a student of comparative government, of political institutions, and of democratic breakdown.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2013

“I think that was the catalyst for real outrage,” Robert Fatton, a comparative government professor, says of Kiernan’s e-mail.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2012

General political science—mainly political theory, with some comparative government.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul