Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in American politics.
Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts that are relevant to all subfields of political science.
Special Topics in International Relations
Special Topics in Political Theory
Supervised Research I
Detailed study of one or more problems in political philosophy.
Examines qualitative methods in political science, including ethnography, interviewing, focus groups, process tracing, and archival research, while exploring their integration with large-n methodologies such as field and natural experiments and …
Analyzes the major theories explaining transitions to democratic regimes and their consolidation or reversion to authoritarian regimes. Case material is drawn from the 19th and 20th centuries from all regions …
Examines political institutions in democratic and authoritarian regimes. Topics include approaches to studying institutions, the state, federalism, electoral systems, executives, legislative decision-making, delegation to bureaucracies, and judicial institutions. The course …