What about Tunisia made it a more ripe setting for democratization compared to Egypt? What might the literature on political parties in democratizing countries tell us? Is this a matter of individuals making bad strategic choices, or were they constrained by other factors? In the paper, youll need to go beyond the two cases of interest and tie your research into a broader body of work on party strategies in emerging democratic regimes. Theres tons of work on this topic from during the Third Wave that might be a good place to start. research question in comparative politics, places that topic within the existing literature, offers a tentative answer to the question, and derives testable hypotheses from that theory. The paper will then offer a research design for testing the theory, and provide any potential evidence in the form of existing data).
