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States can decide for themselves

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A state has the right to make decisions for its own people, territory, the system of government that it will adopt, and the right to remain sovereign. Aside from its internal decision-making capacity, states can have arrangements with other states for inter-state growth/development.

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A state has the ability to make decisions that influence the interaction of people, goods and services within a certain area for its improvement and development.

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protect its citizens

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A state can do a plethora of things. It can protect, serve and uphold the integrity of it's country, people and laws. 

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A state can do a plethora of things. It can protect, serve and uphold the integrity of it's country, people and laws. 

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A state can ideally do whatever its people and constituents dictate within its own territory and nation. They may also interact with other states, in accordance with established norms and rules of the international arena whether they be formal or informal.

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State can protect its people from local threats and maintain the justice system.

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Maintain their justice system

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The state has the ability to decide for its constituents — to ensure the welfare of the citizens and maintain sovereignty without external intervention, and protect one's territory from external threats.

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A state has jurisdiction over its people and territory, and can make binding legal decision within its borders. Furthermore, it has the ability, as a sovereign entity, to form bilateral relationships with other states.

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Implement welfare and other programs for its people

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A state regulates the activities that happens within its borders and it can participate in the regulation of rules in the global community. It can facilitate the interactions of institutions and actors towards the end of development and resolution of issues.

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The state can set-up local and national government which the have the power to maintain it and also to maintain an effective justice system. Aside from this, the state can also protect its people and to prioritize their security and well-being.

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The comparativist may make sense of the state in two aspects. Firstly, they may make sense of the state in terms of comparing internal matters such as how governance is conducted between two separate regions within the same state. Alternatively, they may also use historical comparative in making sense of the state as a singular concept. Secondly, the comparativist may make sense of the state in its relation to other states, and compares it in that aspect.

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A sovereign state can protect its citizens from external and internal threats.

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provide security for citizens

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A state can exercise the sovereignty granted to make decisions for its people, protect their lives, and to promote and secure the welfare of its people.

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In the overall study of politics, essentially nothing is considered out of the depths of comparative politics for the simple fact that every actor, either minor or major, can influence other actors in a multitude of ways. A state can influence the way it operates through its internal matters as well as be influenced by other states through their own affairs. Comparative politics, therefore, is used to make sense of these influences.

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A state can govern people, make laws, and protect its people.

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A state is responsible in upholding domestic affairs and has the autonomy to exercise their own right to govern and protect their citizens.

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A state has the capability to be independent from external influences especially in terms of decision making. States have the power to decide for the good of itself and the constituents. For instance, states can decide to engage in conflicts or to remain neutral and focus on its own problems and developments.

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Comparativists can see states as a unit of analysis being an institution that delivers policy and regulates behavior within their territory as well as suggest or frame rules for the international community in consonance with other states. Comparativists when seen seeing states as political units can understand the interactions of actors and institutions in the domestic levels of governance, national, or international governance.

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The state can create, improve and uphold laws. The state can decide what they think is best for the country.

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States must assume responsibility for matters such as property ownership, education of residents, the implementation of welfare and other benefit programs and the distribution of aid, the protection of people from local threats, the establishment of local governments such as counties and municipalities, etc.

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through the comparative method

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prioritize the welfare of its people

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The state regulates power to help maintain the constituents.

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A state can define its territory and exploit its resources, consolidate power, defend its existence and make decisions for its citizens.

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Depending on the definition of Comparative Politics itself, we are able to determine what is not. When we use the older concept of comparative politics wherein it was not a separated study from political science itself, we see practically nothing is not comparative politics due to the integrated nature of politics within both our lives and in our society. However, when we take the contemporary definition we are able to identify that when there is no comparison present, it may be considered as not comparative politics.

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A sovereign state encompasses facets such as territory, freedom from external forces, people, and laws that act for the betterment, welfare, flourishing of the respective individuals of a particular state and or society.

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They compare by studying how a certain state operates on its own, in comparison of other states; although it does not necessarily have to be state to state, int can be regions within one state as well. From these studies and research conducted the comparativist may then formulate theories, concepts and even policies that may be applicable to the state, or the situations within.

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By unifying a group of people into a singular political territory, a state can offer safeguarding, defense, necessary resources, and the likes by utilizing the group dynamic   

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By unifying a group of people into a singular political territory, a state can offer safeguarding, defense, necessary resources, and the likes by utilizing the group dynamic   

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Comparative politics is a technique of political investigation rather than a political subject. The comparative approach tries to get knowledge by evaluating and analyzing two or more examples. The state is an important unit of comparison because it provides a researcher with reasonably coherent cultural and political entities to compare. A state is the intersection of a distinct cultural identity and a political system that reflects and affirms aspects of that identity.

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A sovereign state can create a governing body to assume responsibility over the welfare and protection of their people and their territory from external and internal forces.

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states can protect their people, decide whats good for the state and literally they can decide for the people

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The state, as a major actor in comparative politics, is an avenue for comparativists to evaluate internal and external issues. Since the state is the most essential unit of comparison, they make sense of the state through the diverse set of ways it operates within and in between other states.

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They can use historical datas, international relations and internal affairs. They can also use identification of similarities and differences from other state to make sense of our own state.

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No comparison between states

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The comparativists analyzes two or more systems of relation for common patterns and distinctions (usually identifying these patterns as products of either a shared genealogy or shared responses to specific historical conditions

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Politics has an encompassing scope. This means that political phenomenon is basically wide and so the scope of the study of comparative politics remain wide. So for as long as there are phenomenon of interest, there will be subjects for the study of comparative politics.

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There is no clear answer as to what is not comparative politics, because their are multitudes of situations and factors that influence politics. Perhaps when there are no clear comparisons to be made, then that would fall as things that are not part of comparative politics.

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When comparison of politics is not seen especially in identifying the similarities and differences of different countries.

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it can help compare each state in analyzing about their institution and try to adopt it

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Comparativists see states as quintessential actors that act as variables for analysis in identifying certain trends and patterns that is encompassed of either of an historical clause, and or impact of ideological driven phenomena of modern times.

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Comparativists may analyze a state based on the factors that are within the state itself (e.g., the constituents, political systems) or through analyzing a state with the participation of matters outside the state (e.g., the occurrences from neighboring countries).

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A comparativist analyzes the state's different domestic and foreign affairs. They would also evaluate systems within a region or state to evaluate the interactions between the institution and its actors concerning internal and external affairs.

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Comparativists make sense of the state according to its relation to its citizens, and comparing that to history and/or other parallel states.

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Comparative Politics is not isolated from other disciplines of study.

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The state is responsible for protecting people's rights such as free speech, religious affiliation, and individual choices. The state must also provide an institution that enables each person in a particular sovereignty meet their everyday requirements. As a result, in a given sovereignty, the state offers stability, justice, and peace.

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It will not be Comparative Politics if there is only one subject to be analyzed since a comparative methodology requires two or more for the comparison to happen.

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It depends on the contextual definition of a given era of the study. In a more modern approach, when the lack of comparison is seen between states, and other factors used in analysis only then can we consider that it is not the study of comparative politics.

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Comparativists, in making sense of the state, takes into account the various political proponents within a state such as the political actors, systems, and institutions as well as in comparing one state to other states and discerning various trends and patterns from the states compared.

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I believe that the fact that comparative politics includes every major and minor political actors as well as every scholar in every field of knowledge, makes comparative politics an "all around" study — gathering "every" knowledge (particularly the field of social science) to explain political phenomena occurring in a certain country.

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Comparative Politics is more so technical and not exactly philosophical.

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Comparative Politics is more so technical and not exactly philosophical.

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From the root word "compare", one can say that it is not comparative politics simply if there are no questions of similarity and differentiation among two or more separate entities.

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comparative politics is not a transhistorical phenomenon since most of the objects of comparison in comparative politics is from the past

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States differ greatly from one another in terms of philosophy, procedure, and political connections. Because the representation of various states is different, comparativist and their research play a useful avenue to develop an analysis in their historical, political, social, and features of a nation in order to make sense of their formal structures.

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It is not comparative politics if it does not discuss the historical and sociological foundations of the state comparison.

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For comparativists, the state serves as the unit analysis of the state — analyzing the state's transformation and decisions in dealing with domestic affairs time after time.

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The state is seen as not only one of the primary factors in political phenomena but also the dependent variable on the events that concerns the formation and evolution of the state.

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Comparative politics involves real cases to the study of a concept or assumption, and it put scrutiny on every variable studied.

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Comparativists can make use of the varying mechanisms of different states for analysis.