Political Science 711 - Cmptv Politics Tutl

This course is a reading-intensive course that provides an introduction to multiple literatures within the field of comparative politics: collective action and social movements; political economy; parties and elections; political identity (including ethnicity, nationalism, and culture); democratization and regime change; collective violence; and comparative political behavior. Students will be expected to prepare an annotated bibliography for 2 or 3 non-overlapping readings each week, allowing us to cover a wide range of readings and create a shared resource for exam preparation. Course assessment emphasizes the development of critical professional skills that are rarely taught explicitly: skimming and summarizing articles; identifying and critically assessing methodological choices; making sense of a new, unfamiliar literature and the context in which it was developed; and identifying links and common threads across multiple literatures.

Grad POLISCI and DACSS