Merits and Challenges of Comparing the EU and Canada

Alexander Hoppe, Lori Thorlakson and Johannes Müller Gómez
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Alexander Hoppe: Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands / Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg‐Essen, Germany
Lori Thorlakson: Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada
Johannes Müller Gómez: Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany / Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal, Canada

Politics and Governance, 2023, vol. 11, issue 3, 226-230

Abstract: In the last decades, EU studies have increasingly broadened in terms of their theoretical and methodological approaches. By now, comparative concepts and theories are an integral part of studying the EU, which aids the study of its polity, politics, and policies. Despite the indisputable peculiarity of the EU as a political system, many scholars have stressed the value of using comparative approaches to study it. This thematic issue aims to investigate a specific case—the political system of Canada—as to its merit for comparison with the EU. While both systems have been described as sui generis in the past, forming a class of political system by themselves, recently the similarities between both have been stressed. This thematic issue gathers articles that compare different aspects of these two systems—focusing on polity, politics, and policy—to reap the benefits of the comparative approach and gain new insights into the functioning of both systems. The contributions to the thematic issue show the benefits that both Canadian political science and EU studies can gain from engaging in comparative exercises.

Keywords: Canada; comparative politics; comparative turn; EU; EU studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.17645/pag.v11i3.7569

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