Comparative politics is a major subfield of political science. It provides analytical frameworks to categorize different countries, and to understand the differences between countries in various aspects, including type of regime, economic performance, and social wellbeing, etc. More precisely, comparative politics encounters questions such as “why are some countries wealthier than the others”, “why can some countries become democratic while some fails”, and “why do issues of ethnicity evoke conflicts in some countries”. With the knowledge of comparative politics, students can analyze and explain governance performance and political situation of a country at a macro perspective. The course: (a) categorization of states and regime, (b) comparative analysis of institution and system, (c) comparative analysis of actor, (d) comparative analysis of political culture, (e) democratization, (f) historical approach of comparative politics, (g) policymaking process, and (f) research method of comparative politics and small N studies.