Mosaic of Regional Studies in a Macroregional Context

The article covers the macro-regional context of case-oriented regional studies in political comparative studies. The case-study format is an in-depth study of a single case in order to understand a specific object or even a class of similar objects, and is a consideration of a specific object "in the moment". This type of research is characterized by obtaining detailed information on the parameters and characteristics of the phenomenon scrutinizing and is based on a non-experimental type of evidence based on observation. One of the effective formats of comparative research is countries comparison located within the same region (sometimes it is a macroregion, sometimes it is an entire continent), or comparison of the (macro)regions with similar entities. A variety of territorial configurations and a variety of interpretations of the concept of a macroregion in comparative political science, along with the above-mentioned interpretations, the division by continents/continents and the historical and cultural division by cardinal directions East-West, North-South also retain their importance. Elements of such a comparison are presented in this issue of “Comparative Politics”, which contains articles analyzing a number of aspects of Western, Latin American, and African politics.

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