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- noun Plural form of
comparativist .
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Examples
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We already have a sizable shelf of comparative histories of slavery and race relations, subjects that have attracted special attention from the comparativists.
Straps Lindsay Marianna Walker 2009
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Regarding the old Sovietology, much of it was indeed pathetic, but it is far from clear to me that things would have been worse if those folks had been the ones advising the various transition governments than some of the crooks who got sent over who had not been comparativists or Sovietologists before, but jumped in from their perches at Harvard to... well, I am not going to name names...
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The book will be of interest to comparativists, to classicists with an interest in ancient law, and to legal scholars who wish they had studied classics.
Archive 2008-04-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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But, then is it really fair for them to look down their noses at comparativists who only do "applied" work?
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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Now, of course, not all methodologists only study American politics, nor do they all look down upon "applied" comparativists, and some probably do speak foreign languages or travel.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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For comparativists, this is a problem because many of us write dissertations that look like books.
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But, then is it really fair for them to look down their noses at comparativists who only do "applied" work?
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Maybe you'll eventually be able to organize a public opinion group blog with some of your grad students or even comparativists who do public opinion research.
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Now, of course, not all methodologists only study American politics, nor do they all look down upon "applied" comparativists, and some probably do speak foreign languages or travel.
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For comparativists, this is a problem because many of us write dissertations that look like books.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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