Foundations of Comparative Politics notes (1st edition)

1st year Bachelor of Social Sciences (semester 1) The academic year 2021-2022 Class of Introduction to Political Sciences by prof. Lefevere Part 9/10 of the summary Full summary with annotations from class and textbook studied all 10 parts and received a 13/20 (5 open questions) in the first session

Summary of Policy and Governance Week 5: Decision-making and Implementation. It contains; National: Chapter 7: Policy making and legislating (page 137-150), Chapter 8: Implementation (page 155-166), Chapter 15: Decision-making (page 324-331) (page 336-339) and Chapter 16: Public spending and public policies (page 342-355) European: Chapter 4: Legislation and decision-making (page 76-101), Chapter 10: Decision-making and Chapter 11: Implementing policies

Summary of Policy and Governance Week 2: Trias Politica and Forms of Government. It contains National: Chapter 4: Constitutions, Chapter 5: Presidential and Parliamentary Government and Chapter 6: Multi-level government; international, national and sub-national European: Chapter 3: The institutional framework

A summary of the readings from Policy and Governance Week 4: Elections and Political Parties. It contains: National: Chapter 12: Voters and elections and Chapter 13: Party Government European: Chapter 5: Public opinion and political participation and Chapter 7: Political parties and the European Parliament

Summary of Policy and Governance Week 6: Evaluating Political Systems. It contains: National: Chapter 3: Democratic change and persistence and Chapter 17: The future of the democratic state European: Chapter 12: Reflecting on the EU as a political system

Full summary of all literature of the course CAPI of the second year of B&O, including all chapters that had to be read from “Foundations of Comparative Politics” by Newton & van Deth, chapters by Lelieveldt & Princen and all other articles. I myself got an 8.6 for the exam through this summary. I took this course last year, 2018-2019.

Samenvatting van de lesstof van het vak Comparative Analysis of Political Institutions: van het boek Foundations of Comparative Politics van Newton & van Deth.

This summary contains all the prescribed chapters for the CAPI exam: CH1,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13 and 14.

This summary contains the articles as described above. Each summary consists of 3 pages.

Summary of the book: foundations of comparative politics. Third edition. Chapters that are discussed in the Democracy and Representation in Europe course at the VUB.