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Comparative Reasoning in the Undergraduate Classroom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2009
Abstract
One of the greatest challenges we face as political scientists is to teach undergraduates how to think comparatively. This article proposes a number of practical, easily adaptable exercises that many of us can incorporate in our teaching to turn curious undergraduates into smart social scientists who think comparatively about the world.
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