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Research Assignment Assgt #7: 'Case study' Comparing 'Iran and China'
Dear Students:
This is a qualitative research assignment 'case study'. Please write an executive summary examining and comparing Iran with China, their political ideology, governmental regime and institutional structure that define their 'state, identity and culture' as nations. You will be prompted to identify the key factors defining these two nations political ideology by research on their history reflecting on regime change, political behavior, and governmental structure.
Mission: After Reading from ebooks and Links under Modules II and your own online qualitative research. Please evaluate and define the institutional principles of these two nations have been shaped or not by the political ideology of their government. Through your own critical and comprehensive analysis you can make a comparison and detect the similarities and differences that these two nations have in their past institutions and how they derived be authoritarian regimes. Both nations have a massive political history of authoritarian and totalitarian governments and once they had absolute monarchies; very interesting countries to study and research on how important religion was for China in the past vs Iran in the present time.
Guidelines to Consider for your Research:
Identify these nations (Iran and China) based on their historical governmental development, identity and cultural principles have been shaping the political ideology and form of government.
Identify the key factors defining these two nations as authoritarian or totalitarian? (theocracy and oligarchy form of governments)
What are the differences in terms of governmental institutions between Iran and China? Is Political Ideology shaping the institutions or the other way around for these nations?
Where there ever authoritarian, weak, or failed nation-states or strong? Is theocracy and oligarchy a form of government? Do they share some aspects of governmental power? Research Guidelines:
Please view the Supplemental Links Part II attached in the module for further research and inspiration.
Use the Online Library of your College.
Use the proper APA/Chicago Style Format (paraphrase correctly with in text citation) refer to 'pages' tab or 'announcement tab' for more info. Thorough qualitative research 3-4 resources and not wikipedia use the 'Pages' tab for extra research references.Include a Bibliography and don't get off Topic!!!