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Course ID: | INTL 4780. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | Course Title: | Special Topics in Comparative Politics | Course Description: | Theoretical, analytical, and empirical approaches to comparative politics. | Oasis Title: | Special Topics in Compar Pol | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 4780H | Prerequisite: | INTL 3200 or INTL 3200E or INTL 3200H or INTL 3300 or INTL 3300E or INTL 3300H or permission of department | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to do
the following: describe and critique the major approaches to
the study of comparative politics; explain how these approaches
help us understand important aspects in comparative politics,
including democracy and democratization, political institutions
and parties, the relationship of states to markets, political
culture, ethnicity, and migration. Finally, students will work
with comparative methodologies and approaches and examine two
or more countries in the light of various political theories,
and compare two or more themes and/or functions across
countries. In doing so, they will learn more than by studying
these countries or themes separately. | Topical Outline: | Foundations of Comparative Politics
Formation of States and Nations
Industrialization and Democratization
Revolutions and Political Transformation
Comparative Legal Systems
Domestic Institutions and Political Parties
Comparative Elections and Electoral Politics
Environmental Politics | |
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