• knowledge of the essence of the basic concepts, categories, terms of discipline;
• understanding of the peculiarities of basic stages of development of comparative political science;
• knowledge of the essence and peculiarities of the state’s form;
• knowledge of the essence, peculiarities and types of the government’s forms, political regimes and state-territorial structure of the world’s states;
• understanding of the peculiarities of functioning of institute of state’s head, legislative, executive and judicial branches of government;
• understanding of the peculiarities of the party and electoral systems on the example of foreign countries;
• the ability to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice in assessing and analyzing the objects of comparative political science.

• Prerequisites: Political Science, Country Studies.
• Corequisites: Comparative political science (course work).

Historical aspects of formation of comparative political science. Features and types of comparative method. Political system: essence, structure and functions. Types and basic models of political systems. Typology of political parties. Classification of party systems in the modern world. The main electoral systems of foreign countries. The state as political institution: essence, characteristics, functions and structure. State’s form. State-territorial structure. Forms of government. Monarchical and republican form of government. Democracy and democratic political regimes. Main features and types of the totalitarian regime. The essence and features of authoritarianism. Institute of state’s head. Peculiarities of the functioning of governments of the world’s states. Parliamentarism and functioning of representative power: international experience. Comparative analysis of the judicial authorities of foreign countries. Models of municipal self-government: world experience

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• Golosov G.V. Sravnitelnaya politologiya: Uchebnik / G.V. Golosov. — 3-e izd., pererab. i dop. — Izd-vo Yevrop. un-ta v S.-Peterburge, 2001. — 368 s. (Trudy f-ta polit, nauk i sotsiologii; vyp. 2).
• Romaniuk A.S. Porivnialnyi analiz politychnykh system krain Zakhidnoi Yevropy: instytutsiinyi vymir / A.S. Romaniuk. – Lviv: Triada plius, 2004. – 392 s.
• Smorgunov L.V. Sravnitelnaya politologiya / L.V. Smorgunov. – SPb: Piter, 2012. – 448 s.

• Current control: (40%): recitation, speeches during practical classes.
• Final control: (60%): exam (tests and theoretical questions).

• knowledge of peculiarities of writing a research paper;
• understanding of the peculiarities and the structure of course work;
• knowledge of essence of comparative analysis and peculiarities of its practical application;
• the ability to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice during the writing and presentation of course work;
• the ability to effectively demonstrate the main provisions of the course work on the public defense.

• Prerequisites: Comparative political science.
• Corequisites: Bachelor's qualification work.

Subjects of course work. General characteristic of the course work. Structural elements of the course work. Stages and deadlines of course work. Requirements for writing a course work. Evaluation criteria of course work. The process of writing and designing of the course work. Public defense of course work.

• Buchyn M.A. Porivnialnyi analiz politychnykh system zarubizhnykh krain: Plany ta metodychni vkazivky dlia napysannia kursovykh robit dlia studentiv napriamu pidhotovky 6.030201 – «Mizhnarodni vidnosyny» dennoi formy navchannia Natsionalnoho universytetu «Lvivska politekhnika» / M.A. Buchyn, Ia.B. Turchyn. – Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Lvivskoi politekhniky, 2014. – 16 s.
• Kursova robota [Elektronnyi resurs] // Vikipediia. – Rezhym dostupu: https://uk.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Kursova_robota

• Public defense of the work (quality of course work, quality of defense, quality of presentation, quality of answers to questions)