Contemporary Political Analysis week 8 part 4 (2022)

This is part 4 of Week 8 of my undergraduate class POLS2044 (Comparative Political Analysis). This series of videos are recorded due to my attendance at the Australian Political Studies Association meeting. This week we focus on group-level causal theorizing and analysis.

The articles I focus on this week:

Posner, Dan. 2004. “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi.” American Political Science Review 98(4): 529-546.

Lijphart, Arend. 1971. “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.” American Political Science Review 65(3): 682–693.

Diamond, Jared. 2005. “One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti,” in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books: 329-357.

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