1.   Our comparative study of political culture includes five democracies.

2.   Overall, the statistical results confirm the relationship between economic development and democracy established by the comparative studies in the earlier phase.

3.   Purely descriptive studies serve as the raw data for those comparative studies that aspire to higher levels of explanation.

4.   The comparative study of institutions is not new in political science.

5.   The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.

6.   The final section is a comparative study of these algorithms and the methods they incorporate.

7.   The first is a comparative study of wool textile organisations, investigating the relationship between career development, innovation and company performance.

8.   The generality of conclusions from well controlled experiments can often be tested by comparative studies.