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Comparative Political Institutions . What is the political institution? A political institution is a structure with established and important functions to perform, well-defined roles for carrying out those functions, and a clear set of rules for governing the relationships between the people who occ
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1. Theories of Political Science Dr. Sujian Guo
San Francisco State Unversity
Email: sguo@sfsu.edu
http://bss.sfsu.edu/sguo
2. Comparative Political Institutions What is the political institution? A political institution is a structure with established and important functions to perform, well-defined roles for carrying out those functions, and a clear set of rules for governing the relationships between the people who occupy those roles. (An organization is a group of individuals working together to undertake actions and achieve certain goals. A system is a structure all of whose parts are interrelated with one another, having behavioral regularities and identity over time.)
3. For example: U.S. Executive Foreign policy making Civil services Presidency Bureaucracy George W. Bush A group of individuals/officials/offices