Özet:

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the development of the comparative political literature in Turkish language, taking into account the thematic, functional and methodological dimensions of the comparative policy that forms the methodological core of political science. In this context, the first part, comparative politics, is defined as a central sub-discipline of political science, comparing its relationship with other sub-services, and the second part, from the end of the nineteenth century, comparative politics has emerged as a sub-services of political science in the United States with a historical perspective. The third part focuses on the objectives and functions of the comparative policy, and the fourth part, which focuses on the method size of the comparative policy, examines the methods used in the comparative policy by dividing them into three studies, one case (N=1), several cases (Little N) and many cases (Big N) according to the number of cases examined.

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