hi.please help: i want t know what exactly "Umbrella label" means here! There is a disturbing element in the U.S. academic jargon, according to which an expert in, say, French politics “does comparative politics.” Comparative politics, in this understanding, is an umbrella label for political science focused on other national contexts than the American case. Apart from the confusion this tends to entail, it also obscures what comparative analysis is all about.