I've alluded to this earlier but one of the hardest and most interesting classes I took as a government major in the Sixties was Comparative Government.
Our test questions, all of which involved essays, required comparisons of the governments of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Soviet Union, Japan, and a few others that don't come to mind.
In other words, you had to know the material and juggle the essentials.
The good news was that it was complicated but interesting.
I see political commentary nowadays in which it is clear that the author has no idea of various political systems or even the basics, such as how a government differs from a church.
This is very disappointing.
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