Study Comparative Political Science in Eichstätt

Comparative political science deals with the characteristics of different political systems and attempts to identify similarities and differences between political systems. It compares constitutional conditions, taking into account the actual processes of political opinion-making, power formation, and decision-making. The subject focuses on methods of comparative political science, typologies of political systems, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, presidential, parliamentary, and semi-presidential systems of government, majority and consensus democracies, autocracies, and federal models of government.

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Courses offered at the Chair of Comaprative Political Science

Winter term

Winter term

Bachelor
  • Introduction to Political Systems and Comparative Politics (5 CP;)
  • Politics and Communication (5 CP)
  • Politics and Communication (10 CP)
  • Political Rhetoric I (5 CP)
Master
  • Comparative Politics (5 CP)
  • Comparative Political Science (10 CP)

Summer term

Summer term:

Bachelor:
  • Political Systems in International Comparison (5 CP)
  • The Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany (5 CP)
  • Political Rhetoric II (5 CP)
Master:
  • Political System and Domestic Politics of the Federal Republic of Germany (5 CP)
  • Political System and Domestic Politics of the Federal Republic of Germany (10 CP)

 

Winter and summer term

Winter and summer semester:

Bachelor:
  • Politics in Germany and France (5 CP; DFS)