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Before the 1950s, comparative politics was mostly normative--arguing how insti-<br > tutions should be--and descriptive, focusing on how other countries institutions<br >actually worked. In fact, a typical title for what we would now call the introduc-<br > tory comparative politics course was "Governments of Foreign Powers." There was<br >almost no explicit comparison of countries institutions, and little interest in what<br >we would now call the comparative method.<br > When in 1955 Roy Macridis, then already a leading scholar in the field, pub-<br >lished the highly polemical essay "A Survey of the Field of Comparative Govern-<br >ment," he created a sensation that rapidly revolutionized comparative politics.<br >Macridis s very pointed critique set off an enormous, and mostly constructive, de-<br >bate throughout the field. It attacked what virtually every present-day scholar<br >would see as the enormous deficiencies of"comparative" politics at the time: that it<br >was not really comparative at all, that its main texts were really "travelogues" of<br >individual-country description, that it focused almost exclusively on the West, that<br >it did not formulate (let alone test) hypotheses, and that it was totally devoid of<br >theory. Perhaps even more interestingly, Macridis went on to attack what was then<br >seen as the most promising solution to these maladies, namely a focus on "area<br >studies" and the debate over this approach remains lively to the present day. As<br >you proceed through the course and the other readings in this collection, you will<br >find it useful to ask again and again: How much of Macridis s critique continues to<br >apply to comparative politics today?<br >
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