The comparative Method is the only scientific approach of Political Science in order to understand and explain political phenomena, trying to serch for similarities and differences among the case studies and to control theoretical hypotheses.

Comparative Politics analyzes: political institutions, party systems, European political parties, electoral systems, electoral behaviour, types of democracies, democratizazion processes, non democratic regimes and other topics. of contemporary politics.

The course will consist of two parts. in the first one the study of comparative method will be developed through methodological tools (concepts, variables, correlations...) such as the quantitative and qualitative approaches.  in the second one some case study  will be selected and explred in a comparative perspective.