Assignment

At the beginning of the semester we talked about the impracticality of "grand theory" in comparative politics. Having examined no less than six countries, do you still think "grand theory" is feasible along the lines of what it originally argued (modernization theory)? Do you think "grand theory" can still function but under different arguments? Or do you think "grand theory" is simply impractical and we should examine a set of smaller criteria? If you agree with the third argument, what approaches to the study of socio-political development should we examine? Choose two of the countries we studied, one from each, (Great Britain, Germany, and India) and (Venezuela, Russia, and China) and use those countries, and what we learned about them, to support your answers to the above questions.